Splitting 5-4, Supreme Court backs religious challenge to Cuomo’s virus shutdown order

Washington • The Supreme Court late Wednesday barred restrictions on religious services in New York that Gov. Andrew Cuomo had imposed to combat the coronavirus.The vote was 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s three liberal members in dissent. The order was the first in which the court’s newest member, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, played a decisive role.The court’s ruling was at odds with earlier ones concerning churches in California and Nevada. In those ca