Joe Biden’s statement Wednesday on the Little Sisters of the Poor Supreme Court case marked the vanishing space for religious liberty among Democrats.

The former vice president, who up to then had remained relatively silent on the issue, a yearslong battle over whether or not the Catholic order of nuns would have to offer contraception in its healthcare plans, confirmed what many of his critics had long suspected. If elected, Biden essentially promised to undo the Supreme Court’s protections for the Little Sisters by rolling back President Trump’s exemptions from the contraception mandate.