JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Washington state from enforcing a law that would have required priests to report evidence of child abuse learned during confession.

The Trump administration had intervened on the side of the Catholic clergy.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.348728/gov.uscourts.wawd.348728.227.0.pdf

The judge, Biden appointee David Estudillo, agreed that the state law infringed on the free exercise of religion. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.348728/gov.uscourts.wawd.348728.227.0.pdf

Trump admin sure intervenes in ways that seem to protect powerful child predators a lot, but go on trusting the plan of whatever

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