RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – (Opinion) Today, March 7, Brazil’s Supreme Court (STF) will hear cases involving the controversial question of whether states and municipalities can, constitutionally, issue a blanket ban on all religious services in their efforts to restrict contagion by Covid-19.
On Saturday, April 3, STF Justice Kassio Nunes Marques issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting governments from issuing or enforcing such a ban. On Monday, April 5, STF Justice Gilmar Mendes rejected an almost identical petition seeking to abrogate São Paulo’s statewide ban.
A unanimous STF decision in December 2020 held that states . . .
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