Who's ready for SCOTUS opinions at 10?! (On this particular morning, I am not!)
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There are about 30 states that provide tax credits or vouchers to private schools. The Supreme Court's decision today essentially requires these states to fund RELIGIOUS schools with taxpayer dollars, as well. This is a huge decision that totally unsettles Free Exercise law.
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Here is what's particularly shocking about this decision. The Montana Supreme Court struck down tax benefits for private religious AND secular schools. Now SCOTUS has ordered the state to revive tax benefits for both kinds of schools. This outcome simply makes no sense.
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These two sentences, from Roberts' majority opinion, might as well repeal the Establishment Clause. The Supreme Court spent years debating whether states that funded private schools were even ALLOWED to fund religious schools. Now Roberts declares that they MUST. Incredible.pic.twitter.com/79PxFCCcEg
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You might think: OK, then states can stop funding all private schools to avoid funding religious ones. But it's not clear if that's allowed, either. It's exactly what Montana did here, and the Supreme Court just found it violated the Free Exercise Clause.
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Let me put it this way: After decades of debate in our communities, houses of worship, city councils, and legislatures about state funding of religious education, five lawyers in Washington, D.C. just settled the matter for the nation.
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Justice Sotomayor's dissent pulls no punches: "Today's ruling is perverse." https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-1195_g314.pdf …pic.twitter.com/ijPCjOefhq
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Gorsuch joins Thomas in declaring that the First Amendment's Establishment Clause likely allows states to establish an official religion. Not even Scalia was willing to go that far. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-1195_g314.pdf …Afficher cette discussion -
And here is Justice Alito, with receipts from Ramos, announcing that 38 states' "Blaine Amendments," state constitutional provisions that bar state funding of religious exercise, are motivated by anti-Catholic animus and thus unconstitutional. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-1195_g314.pdf …pic.twitter.com/2bipvtHzyO
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Today's radical Supreme Court decision bulldozes the wall separating of church of state, forcing taxpayers in nearly 30 states to subsidize private religious education—even if doing so violates their own religious beliefs. It is a stunning act of activism.https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/supreme-court-espinoza-montana-religious-schools.html …
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So don’t fund any private schools?
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Yes, hints the “private”
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