OPINION:
Michael McKenna writes in his column, “A new, better Supreme Court makes its debut in New York pandemic case” (Web, Nov. 28), that the court’s vote should have been 9-0, but was 5-4. I agree with Mr. McKenna’s assertion that the vote should have been 9-0.
With the addition of constitutional conservative Amy Coney Barrett, the court was presumably ideologically aligned 6-3 instead of 5-4, as in the July vote of the U.S. Supreme Court in Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v. Sisolak. The close 5-4 vote reflects the abandonment by Chief Justice John Roberts of any pretense of being a constitutional textualist. He joined the court’s other three liberals (four before Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg passed away) as he has done in several other decisions. Roberts is a turncoat.
JOHN K. LAMBERT
Silver Spring, Md.
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