NPR: It Suuuuuure Sounds Like SCOTUS Will Strike Down Bar On Public Funding For Religious Schools

Hotair ^ | 01/23/2020 | Ed Morrissey

[arthurus]

The government being involved in blatant redistribution i.e. entitlements is unConstitutional on its face. Most of the government is unConstitutional. If over the course of a Presidential term the entire bureaucracy could be pared back 95% or more and the government removed from all involvement with things like education and Medicine and Insurance, we would have a time of disruption, a couple of more years, then the economy would take off like China of 20 years ago but with a much more solid basis.

[b4me]

other religious schools likely would grab at it, but if Christian schools were biblical they would not want tax payer/federal monies.

[zeugma]

How is SCOTUS holding hearings if the Chief Justice is presiding over the Impeachment?

Seems they are only doing one case a day. They normally do oral arguments for two.

For anyone who would like to read for themselves, you can find the transcript for this case here. It was interesting. Some of the justices seems really skeptical about the basis for the Montana court ruling. There were quite a few questions regarding standing at the beginning by the liberal side. I think they know which way the winds are blowing and are trying to get the case to punt on that basis instead.

[zeugma]

Supposedly she listen to a tape or whatever of the oral arguments, and wrote her decision.

It really doesn't matter. Justice Thomas doesn't participate at all in oral arguments. He is on record as saying that he thinks it is nothing but theater, and could be done away with completely. The case is in the briefs, not the orals. (I should probably restate that, but it's accurate.) I think he missed a case or two earlier this term, and still will participate in them, because the oral arguments are really superfluous.

Now, that still doesn't answer the question of whether or not Ginsberg is healthy enough to actually go through the briefs. I kind of doubt it. I know what chemo does to the brain. Most chemotherapy fogs the brain badly for a while. I know it was really frustrating to my wife, that she couldn't concentrate enough to read a book for several days after chemo treatments.

[Steven Scharf]

Montana’s clause is one of 37 “Blaine Amendments” passed by states in the late 19th century. They are named for James Blaine, a former Speaker of the House (1869-1875), Senator (1876-1881) and Secretary of State (1889-1892) from Maine who pushed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution barring funding of “sectarian” causes and organizations.

At that time, opponents of the law say, Blaine’s effort mainly targeted Catholic schools and institutions. His amendment failed at the federal level but many states including Montana inserted similar language in their constitutions.

Just like prohibition, Maine was on the forefront of being a nanny state, except it was conservatives pushing it. By 1919 Maine became the deciding progressive vote for women’s suffrage again spearheaded by conservatives.

[Publius]

Don’t forget Maine’s experiment with Prohibition long before it went national.

[reg45]

Will that funding include madrassas?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Will that funding include madrassas?

The article talks about TAX BREAKS for contributions and donations to churches. I wonder why this is an issue when it has always been there from time immemorial.

So, the answer to your question is ‘yes’, even to mosques and madrassas. But, but but, if it is discovered that these madrassas are funding terror, IT IS AGAINST THE LAW, so donations should not be tax deductible.