Fri Jun 9, 2023 – 4:10 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – On Wednesday, Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri grilled President Joe Biden’s nominee to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Loren AliKhan, over her support of targeting religious gatherings for COVID-19 lockdowns, during her time as Solicitor General of the nation’s capital.
Hawley asked AliKhan about her role in Capitol Hill Baptist Church v. Bowser, a 2020 case in which Capitol Hill Baptist Church sued the D.C. government for refusing to grant it a waiver from the city’s ban on outdoor worship gatherings of 100 or more people even if conducted with masks and social distancing. Supported by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the church argued that the refusal was discriminatory, noting that the city allowed secular gatherings for the Black Lives Matter movement (a double standard replicated by many left-wing cities), and won.
AliKhan answered in the affirmative that it was wrong to discriminate on the basis of religion, to which Hawley responded by asking, “Then why did you argue that religious services and religious people pose a greater risk of infection than people gathered to argue
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