A judge in California has now ordered that Governor Gavin Newsom pay a $1.35 million fine for his state-imposed lockdown that unfairly targeted 3,000 churches during the height of the Coronavirus pandemic.
As Townhall reports:
Newsom is required to pay the costs and attorney fees for a lawsuit from Harvest Rock Church that went to the United States Supreme Court. The judge said Newsom and other state officials cannot regulate church attendance unless certain dire circumstances laid out were to arise, which is not likely.
U.S. District Court Judge Jesus G. Bernal ruled that limitations on church gatherings can only be imposed if child infections rise 100 percent, cases in the state are at a minimum of 26 per 100,000 people or available ICU hospital bed capacity drops to under 20 percent.
California may only place restrictions on churches if they are identical to other social gatherings.
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Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, a nonprofit law firm that represented the church, told the Washington Examiner that Newsom was is the “worst governor in America” when it comes to religious freedom.
Democrat eagerness to strictly lockdown Christian churches during the pandemic was likely motivated by far more than merely public safety, a reality that Chrisitan voters throughout America are have been learning the hard way over the past year.
Good for the judge to uphold the law and not cave to the loony leftists!
Disenfranchising and disillusioning conservatives is a process which includes such activity. Nothing’s going to happen to this tyrant, but we’ll be constantly reminded how efforts to bring these people to justice will be fruitless, cost tons of money, and merely comprise examples of how ‘stacked’ our courts are, and how such politicians become “Teflon Coated” (Clinton and his Wife were sterling examples.) America is becoming a dictatorship. These politicians will demonstrate that fact in this manner.
Newsom is CATHOLIC. Have you ever heard of a successful CATHOLIC anything? me neither.
Is that a personal fine or will the taxpayers foot the bill? Is it something covered by errors and omissions insurance (if CA has it for its employees), in which case CA’s insurance rates (paid for by taxpayers) will balloon? Will there be any follow-up on this story?
Liberals raise taxes/fees/fines/foibles/funds. You can correlate CA insurance rates as funds.