Supporters of charter schools and church-state separation describe a ‘tumultuous moment’ as the debate heads for April oral arguments.
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider reviving an effort to create the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school. In what is set to become a major case implicating religious rights,
The state’s highest court said that the religious charter school would be a “state actor” and not a private entity contracting with the state. State funding of the school would violate the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment prohibition on government establishment of religion, the court said.
Senate Democrats pressed Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing over whether she would overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a health care law that...
As is common now, the supposed “conservative court” did not vote as a bloc, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the three liberal justices. Democrats have ...
As is common now, the supposed “conservative court” did not vote as a bloc, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the three liberal justices. Democrats have ...
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday denied an emergency application to block the Biden administration’s student loan debt relief program, Axios reported. The application was ...
The justices said they will hear an appeal over the proposed St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, a Catholic charter school in Oklahoma.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a bid by Oklahoma officials to approve the nation's first publicly-funded religious charter school.
The court will address a lower court decision deeming the school's funding to be unconstitutional. Notably, a majority of the justices profess the Roman Catholic faith. Associate Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Sonia Sotomayor, as well as Chief Justice John Roberts, are all Catholic.
The Supreme Court will weigh the fate of an Oklahoma religious charter school that has blurred the lines between church and state, justices announced Friday in an unsigned order distributed days after President Donald Trump was sworn into office.