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Revelation34 posted...

It wouldn't matter since that arrest violates the First Amendment. He will have a high paying lawsuit for when everything starts to get back to normal.

You're wrong, admittedly I'm not entirely sure how the courts would go but I saw a report that detailed how government efforts to deal with disease in the past had generally had support of the courts.

The man was not targeted because of his speech. He was not targeted because of his religion. The first amendment really doesn't come into play here. He was arrested for violating the order that applied to everyone, the government should be able to make a simple and compelling argument that they would have arrested anyone compelling people to gather in direct defiance of the reasonable emergency order.

It's difficult for me to see the courts siding with this person, it would require a court overturning a rather great deal of precedent.