The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of religious plaintiffs in roughly 85% of cases heard since Chief Justice John Roberts took over in 2005, according to studies by political scientists Lee Epstein and Eric Posner.
In Fulton v. City of Philadelphia (2021), the Court unanimously sided with Catholic Social Services after the city cut ties over its refusal to certify same-sex foster parents.
In Carson v. Makin (2022), the Court ruled 6-3 that Maine could not exclude religious schools from a taxpayer-funded tuition assistance program.
Bostock v. Clayton County (2020) held that federal civil rights law bars employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch.
The current Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority, with three justices appointed during the Trump administration between 2017 and 2020.