The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed atheists a temporary win by rejecting a the City of Ocala, Florida's request to toss a lawsuit over a prayer vigil.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in a statement that the atheists should lack standing to sue, but said the Supreme Court will let the case play out in lower courts before intervening., but Gorsuch wrote in an accompanying statement that the legal theory the lower courts used to grant the atheists standing — called the"Lemon test" for a 1971 Supreme Court ruling — was now defunct.
Justice Clarence Thomas dissented, arguing the Supreme Court should hear Ocala's case now and clear up the confusion about standing in cases concerning the First Amendment's establishment clause.on which the District Court relied is no longer good law," Gorsuch wrote.
"We should reconsider this seeming aberration before it further erodes bedrock Article III restrictions on the judicial power," he wrote.
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