Gov. Andrew Cuomo accuses the Supreme Court of politicizing COVID-19 after it struck down his house of worship regulations

In a display of rich irony, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) accused the Supreme Court of playing politics with the novel coronavirus after it struck down his regulations that purported to severely limit the size of worship services in certain areas of the state.

Cuomo, whose regulations had previously withstood a series of legal challenges, responded to the Supreme Court's rebuke of his regulations by musing, "You have a different court, and I think that was the statement that the court was making. We know who [President Trump] appointed to the court. We know their ideology."

Of course, Cuomo's dismissal of the Supreme Court's decision largely ignores the fact that the Supreme Court struck down his regulations in a 5-4 ruling largely because it found that Cuomo's response to the novel coronavirus was based largely on politics, and not on science.