Missouri AG Asks Supreme Court to Hear Case Over Disqualifying Jurors Based on Christian Beliefs

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey asked the Supreme Court this week to hear a case over disqualifying jurors based on their Christian beliefs, saying the Constitution doesn’t support religious discrimination.

Missouri’s top cop claims a trial court struck jurors from considering Jean Finney’s employment discrimination claims against her employer, the state’s department of corrections, simply because they held Christian beliefs, a move he says was unlawful because the trial court had found the jurors could be unbiased.

“Jurors can be excluded, of course, if their religious views in fact make them biased — just like jurors can be excluded if their race or sex in fact makes them biased. But this court’s precedents make clear that courts cannot assume, based on stereotypes about race or sex, that a person will be biased. The same ought to be true with religion,” Mr. Bailey’s court filing read.

Read the source article at The Washington Times