Supreme Court partially grants and partially rejects California churches request

[brucejoel99]

Holy sh*t, Kagan is (respectfully) pissed:

In the worst public health crisis in a century, this foray into armchair epidemiology cannot end well.

All this from unelected actors, "not accountable to people." South Bay, 590 U. S., at ___ (ROBERTS, C. J., concurring) (slip op., at 2). I fervently hope that the Court's intervention will not worsen the Nation's COVID crisis. But if this decision causes suffering, we will not pay. Our marble halls are now closed to the public, and our life tenure forever insulates us from responsibility for our errors. That would seem good reason to avoid disrupting a State's pandemic response. But the Court forges ahead regardless, insisting that science-based policy yield to judicial edict. I respectfully dissent.

[brucejoel99]

For all the assumptions made about her from both sides (which, don't get me wrong, will probably end up being largely accurate in a lot of cases), the fact is that Amy Coney Barrett is the least well-documented Supreme Court Justice in terms of her exact jurisprudence since (at least)...David Souter.

While her background, statements, and previous rulings make it almost certain that she isn't actually a Souter and is very clearly on the conservative side, exactly where she falls within that side is very much yet to be seen.

Would Kagan not have had more doubts about her due to having never been a judge?
I am surprised by Barrett here as well as I had her down as most likely joining Thomas and Alito on the hard right of the court. 

We (by which I really mean politicians, pundits, prognosticators, etc.) have seemingly overestimated how right-wing recent judicial appointments would be. I remember an ideological spectrum diagram from Kavanaugh's confirmation putting him just to the left of Thomas & well to the right of Gorsuch & Alito, which is (obviously) utterly laughable.