Supreme Court rules on School Voucher Program

Religious Schools Win Big in Supreme Court

SCOTUS handed a huge win to the religious right. Conservatives on the Supreme Court are simply daring liberal democrats to riot in the streets.

This particular case involves a school voucher program in Maine but the decision will have far-reaching repercussions. The verdict was split 6-3, with Justice Sotomayor so bent out of shape she had to write a special dissent of her own.

Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the conservative six, declared “Maine’s ‘nonsectarian‘ requirement for its otherwise generally available tuition assistance payments violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.”

It’s crystal clear that regardless “of how the benefit and restriction are described, the program operates to identify and exclude otherwise eligible schools on the basis of their religious exercise.” Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett totally agreed.

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