good decision, Breyer and Sotomayor are livid.
Link to opinion ... https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-1088_dbfi.pdf
Yay!
Here is the ruling, Carson v. Makin: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-1088_dbfi.pdf
“ROBERTS, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which THOMAS,
ALITO, GORSUCH, KAVANAUGH, and BARRETT, JJ., joined. BREYER, J., filed
a dissenting opinion, in which KAGAN J., joined, and in which SOTOMAYOR, J., joined as to all but Part I–B. SOTOMAYOR, J., filed a dissenting opinion. “
Excellent..public school groomer lose again.
Religious freedom is an important part of the conservative agenda. I wish it got more attention during presidential debates. Moderate Republicans ignore the topic but it’s a winning issue.
Thank you Donald Trump. Excellent!
Maine allows tuition assistance for parents who have to send their children to private schools because there is no public school. The schools must be accredited. Maine prohibited parents from sending their children to religious schools even if the religious school had the exact same accreditation as the non-sectarian school.
The Constitution may prohibit the government from favoring religion, but it also prohibits the government from disfavoring religion, which is exactly what this Maine law did.
Sotomayor said: “Nonetheless, it is irrational for this Court to hold that the Free Exercise Clause bars Maine from giving money to par- ents to fund the only type of education the State may pro- vide consistent with the Establishment Clause: a reli- giously neutral one. Nothing in the Constitution requires today’s result.”
I understand what she is saying, but there are big glaring practicality problems with placing the onus on parents to undertake a regulatory function that they are not equipped to undertake. Then again there is the problems with accounting for public funds in the transparent fashion required by law.
Why hasn’t the court issued an injunction against demonstrating at the residences of judges? Why hasn’t the court issued a reprimand to the Justice Dept for not enforcing federal law?
Days like this wont deter the never-Trump, RINO element of the right, but this doesn’t happen without a Trump victory in 2016, a victory of his own will, against the odds and for which he has suffered like few others.
McConnell, McCarthy, Ryan and all the rest get no credit. Thanks You President Trump. I may never vote for another National republican, but you did me proud.
Being too lazy to look, I’ll bet this refers to the ‘Blaine Amendment’. This was a 19th-century movement to stop any funding of parochial schools. Many, if not most states adopted it.
WOOT!!
good ruling preventing States and Cities from DISCRIMINATING against religious schools!!!!
THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!
for appointing REAL CONSERVATIVES!!!
Just imagine if the RINO’s like the Bush’s hadn’t of sold us out!! we could of stopped the liberals DECADES AGO!!
Hey, how is that filibuster going in the Senate?
The one that you said would be “gone.”
TAKE YOUR L.
Meanwhile, in other judicial news, this quote from yesterday’s Wall Street Journal commentary about the NYS Supreme Court recent denial of petitioner Nonhuman Rights Project’s application to have elephants declared human:
“...Happy the elephant at the Bronx Zoo, was rebuffed in a 5-2 decision by the New York State Court of Appeals. For now, an elephant is an elephant, not a person, though elephants are clearly smarter than two dissenting New York state judges and the humans at the Nonhuman Rights Project.”
The U of Penn women’s swim team can now rest easy knowing that transelephant Happy won’t be showing up for a spot on the team any time soon. Poor thangs. What, with the gender confused, genderless , transpecies, transelephants, Jabba the Hut type plant based beings, each with their own set of pronouns, and each clutching freshly issued judicial decisions from California declaring them teenage women. potentially vying for a spot on the U of Penn women’s swim team, the team will look more like a Star Wars bar with flippers than a women’s swim team.
Maybe this will help with school choice across the US. I’d sure like a voucher equal to what the federal, state, and local cost of my kid’s education to apply it to a school of our choosing, whether religious or not.
The begininning of the end of the K-12 “public school” monopoly on “public” (taxpayers) funds for K-12 EDUCATION.
The whole idea has to be reversed from the progressive/Marxists ideal. The whole idea must be made clear that is 100% about public support for K-12 EDUCATION, and not about protecting any K-12 education institution.
I’m disappointed that this ruling does not appear to reach to the constitutionality of Blaine amendments in general.
This ruling also leaves Maine the out of contracting with some specific private schools and eliminating the parents’ choice altogether.
What have they done to our own sweet liberal loving Roberts ???
Aliens ???
I assume this would include islamic schools?