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New York Gov. Andrew Cuo­mo said Thurs­day that a Supreme Court rul­ing sid­ing with reli­gious orga­ni­za­tions in a dis­pute over Covid-19 restric­tions he put in place was in essence the court “mak­ing a state­ment that it’s a dif­fer­ent court.”

He also not­ed that while the cur­rent dis­pute was pend­ing, he had lift­ed some of the restric­tions in place.

“The basic point is you know why does the court rule on an issue that is moot unless — and which they had just decid­ed sev­er­al months before in oth­er cas­es which pre­sent­ed the same argu­ment — why rule on a case that is moot and come up with a dif­fer­ent deci­sion than you did sev­er­al months ago on the same issue? You have a dif­fer­ent court and I think that was the state­ment that the court was mak­ing,” he said.