In a major bipartisan win for religious freedom on Monday, a federal court tossed out the criminal convictions of four volunteers who, due to their religious convictions, risked their lives to leave food and water for illegal immigrants without a permit. The court rightly ruled that prosecuting them would violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. It’s another reminder that the law doesn’t just shield social conservatives: Rather, it protects religious liberty for all.

The four defendants were originally prosecuted for entering the Cabeza Prieta Wildlife Refuge without a permit. They were volunteering with a charitable organization affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Church called No More Deaths. Per the ruling, “A founding volunteer of that organization testified that No More Deaths is a ‘humanitarian aid organization’ that was founded in 1999 ‘to provide food and water and medical care in the desert.’” As Cabeza Prieta is a particularly brutal stretch of desert, that is exactly what this group of volunteers did. For this, they were prosecuted and convicted.