News Analysis The Supreme Court has had a mixed track record over the past year in terms of protecting Americans’ civil rights during the ongoing pandemic, according to legal experts consulted by The Epoch Times. The nation’s highest court generally did a good job at safeguarding religious freedoms, as it struck down limits on church capacity. A year ago, the court blocked then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo from enforcing pandemic-related restrictions on attendance at places of worship in a 5–4 ruling in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, which was a departure from the high court’s previous hands-off rulings that gave states free rein to limit constitutional rights while combating COVID-19. The shift in the court’s stance coincided with its decreasing reliance on a 1905 precedent known as Jacobson v. Massachusetts, a compulsory vaccination case that held that individual liberty was subject to the police power of the states. …