The Supreme Court agreed late on Jan. 13 to take up the civil rights lawsuit of an evangelical Christian postal worker in Pennsylvania who quit the U.S. Postal Service after it refused to accommodate his wish not to work on the Sunday Sabbath.
The granting of the petition in Groff v. DeJoy, court file 22-174, over the opposition of the Biden administration, came as the high court has become increasingly protective of First Amendment-based religious protections in recent years.
The justices gave no reason for their decision. No justices dissented from the ruling.
Gerald Groff began working as a mail carrier for the USPS in 2012. Groff was what is called a rural carrier associate, meaning he filled in for absent career employees….