US Supreme Court Rejects Appeal Challenging New York’s Removal of Religious Exemption for Schoolchildren
The U.S. Supreme Court, which takes only a small number of cases each year, declined to take up the appeal of 55 families challenging the 2019 removal of New York’s vaccine religious exemption.
“As those who have followed the case know, the legislature in NY repealed the 50-year-old religious exemption for students in June 2019. It did so with hateful rhetoric accusing religious people of being fraudsters.
“I believe this violated the first amendment which this court explicitly has held does not suffer any state action smitten with religious intolerance. I had expected this court to reaffirm this principle, but four justices did not vote to hear our case.
“So, we have lost. The only hope now is in the state legislature and hope is hard to find there.”
How can the supreme court decide not to hear a case involving first amendment rights?