Posted on 06/21/2022 7:38:46 AM PDT by nwrep
This case was a challenge to the constitutionality of a Maine program that prohibits tuition for some students to attend private religious schools when their own school district does not operate a public secondary school.
The court 6-3, led by Roberts, holds that the Maine program violates the free exercise clause.
Because the benefits hinge on whether a school is religious, the Chief writes, the Maine program "effectively penalizes the free exercise" of religion.
(Excerpt) Read more at supremecourt.gov ...
That’s exactly how I see it too.
Why wouldn't it?
Maine seems to be circling the drain, and isn’t helped by its faux Rep. Senatress.
Tell Happy the elephant that he needs to move to California where he can be anything he wants.
After all, if California recognizes bumblebees as fish, Happy can take his choice of life forms.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.sacbee.com/news/california/article262045952.html
I looked that case up. What happened was that, back in 1970 when the law was written, the California legislature, in its wisdom, inserted a typographic error in this law which changed “vertrebrae” to “invertebrae”. So every case ruling on this law requires that the judges write flaming nonsense to avoid ruling that the law is useless because the legislature screwed up.
Yeah, but a judge should have kicked it back to the legislature years ago. This garbage of having a court do legal gymnastics worthy of John Roberts every couple of years is wasteful.
But, it’s California, what can we expect?
“What a difference five years makes. In 2017, I feared that the Court was ‘lead[ing] us . . . to a place where separation of church and state is a constitutional slogan, not a constitutional commitment.’ Today, the Court leads us to a place where separation of church and state becomes a constitutional violation.”
At least the person who can’t think said something.
Today they throw us a bone. Tomorrow they chicken out and uphold RvW.
That was the big question I had. When laws of this stature are broken isn’t the DOJ required to enforce them, arrest the guilty & all that? Must be following the Calif. rules for lawbreakers. Or maybe they thought the law was referring to jawbreakers.
And Pastafarian, and Church of Satan.
“And Pastafarian, and Church of Satan.”
Yup. It’s one of those feared slippery slopes.
Sotomayor would leave parents high and dry in areas with few schools. Better to have a Catholic school education that will allow students to pass mandated exams than to have to reinvent the wheel on academic requirements.
Apparently, Maine is completely awful with regard to a lack of school choice, and we do live in the era of “cancel culture.”
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