A very lengthy list of governing bodies of Christian and Jewish congregations on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against dog murdering Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her department over the Trump Regime’s revocation of a previous restriction on ICE’s ability to conduct arrests and raids on houses of worship, with the plaintiffs arguing that’s an affront to their “religious freedoms.”
“DHS’s authorization of immigration enforcement action at Plaintiffs’ places of worship in the absence of exigent circumstances or a judicial warrant violates Plaintiffs’ rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (‘RFRA’) and the First Amendment. Under RFRA, the federal government ‘shall not substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability’ unless the government demonstrates that the burden is ‘the least restrictive means of furthering [a] compelling governmental interest.’ The First Amendment similarly prohibits government interference in the freedom of expressive association – including association for the purpose of engaging with others in protected religious exercise, speech, or peaceable assembly unless the government can show its conduct serves ‘compelling state interests… that cannot be achieved through means significantly less restrictive of associational freedoms,'” says the complaint.