Asked by Cayden Casto

Why did the Supreme Court rule against Archbishop Flores?
Responses

The RFRA had interfered with Flores’s religious freedom.
The RFRA had interfered with Flores’s religious freedom.

Flores had violated the RFRA passed by Congress.
Flores had violated the RFRA passed by Congress.

The RFRA violated the Constitution.
The RFRA violated the Constitution.

Boerne had violated Flores’s religious rights.
Boerne had violated Flores’s religious rights.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
The RFRA violated the Constitution.

The Court (City of Boerne v. Flores, 1997) held that Congress exceeded its enforcement powers under §5 of the Fourteenth Amendment when it enacted RFRA to regulate the states, so RFRA was unconstitutional as applied to the states.