The US Supreme Court sided with a rural Colorado church Tuesday that challenged the state Democrat governor’s COVID rules restricting attendance capacity in some parts of the state.

The 6-3 decision overturned lower court rulings that had upheld Gov. Jared Polis’s church gathering limits to a maximum of 25 percent or 50 people, whichever is fewer, and ordered lower courts to re-examine the case.

This follows a ruling last week by the same court against religious worship in New York.

The cases upholding religious liberty come on the heels of rare public remarks by Justice Samuel Alito criticizing coronavirus lockdowns this year as placing “previously unimaginable” restrictions on American freedom.

In Europe, similar judgements have been made in cases in Geneva and Belgium in the past week.