Mealey's (March 21, 2022, 1:55 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on March 21 denied a petition for writ of certiorari filed by a religious nonprofit employer in a discrimination dispute, but Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote in a statement in which he was joined by Justice Clarence Thomas that while denial was appropriate given “the interlocutory posture of this case, . . . the day may soon come when we must decide whether the autonomy guaranteed by the First Amendment protects religious organizations’ freedom to hire co-religionists without state or judicial interference.”...