A woman follows along in her bible during the sermon at a drive-in service on April 5 in Louisville, Ky. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic limiting gatherings of people, churches have responded with alternate ways to have their services. Restrictions discriminate against religion Lengthy opinion possibly could have been avoided with city response Drive-thru Easter services took place in Kentucky on Sunday after a U.S. district court judge nominated for a high-profile appeals court wrote restrictions placed on those services due to Covid-19 were unconstitutional. But the way in which the recently installed Judge Justin Walker, President Donald Trump’s newest nominee for the D.C. Circuit, went about writing that decision attracted attention beyond just Kentuckians. Walker’s opinion, which delved into the historical plight of Christians, solved a problem that possibly didn’t exist and may have been intended to raise his profile, law professors told Bloomberg Law. “We all know what’s going on here,” Eric Segall, a law professor at Georgia State College of Law, said. The 37-year-old nominee’s opinion is a way “to say ‘Donald Trump, if the time comes—or any Republican president—put me on the Supreme Court.’” Josh Blackman, a law professor at South Texas College of Law […]
