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inlawrev-26846	Reyes, René	Religious Liberty, Racial Justice, and Discriminatory Impact: Why the Equal Protection Clause Should be Applied at Least as Strictly as the Free Exercise Clause	2022	44	.pdf	application/pdf	21427	1159	56	Justice Scalia emphasized that this did not mean that religious claimants would necessarily be bereft of legal protection.52 However, he was also quite explicit in acknowledging that much of this protection would be subject to the vagaries of majoritarian politics and that minority groups might suffer as a result: It may fairly be said that leaving accommodation to the political process will place at a relative disadvantage those religious practices that are not widely engaged in; but that unavoidable consequence of democratic government must be preferred to a system in which each conscience is a law unto itself or in which judges weigh the social importance of all laws against the centrality of all religious beliefs.53 The Smith Court thus seemed content to entrench a constitutional framework in which those who hold political power and privilege enjoy a greater measure of rights and freedoms than those who do not. Adam Liptak, Supreme Court, in 5-4 Decision, Rejects Church’s Challenge to Shutdown Order, N.Y. TIMES (June 15, 2020), https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/us/supreme-court- churches-coronavirus.html	cache/inlawrev-26846.pdf	txt/inlawrev-26846.txt