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Cite as:  591 U. S. ____ (2020) 

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THOMAS, J., concurring 

(THOMAS,  J.,  concurring).  The  Free  Exercise  Clause,  alt-
hough enshrined explicitly in the Constitution, rests on the 
lowest rung of the Court’s ladder of rights, and precariously 
so  at  that.  Returning  the  Establishment  Clause  to  its 
proper scope will not completely rectify the Court’s dispar-
ate treatment of constitutional rights, but it will go a long 
way toward allowing free exercise of religion to flourish as 
the Framers intended.  I look forward to the day when the
Court takes up this task in earnest.