The Court held that the ‘ministerial exception’ to the First Amendment applied in the case, giving the school the right to hire or fire teachers without government interference.
A district court had blocked laws prohibiting telemedicine abortions, ensuring second-trimester abortions only happen in hospitals or surgical centers, and requiring pregnant women be informed about fetal pain, among other things.
Mitch McConnell said Republicans are going to ‘challenge’ Democrats if they bring up Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s ‘religion as somehow a disqualifying factor.’
The court also let stand a third ruling, which allowed the abortion provider Whole Woman’s Health a provisional license to open an abortion facility in South Bend, Indiana and denied pro-life petitions to review 'buffer zone' laws.