Amy Coney Barrett may have sat out huge Supreme Court case
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The Supreme Court on Thursday, in a 4-4 ruling, said Oklahoma cannot create the nation's first religious charter school funded directly with taxpayer dollars.
Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general had argued that drastic consequences would follow if the justices sided with the school.
In a 4-to-4 decision, the court upheld a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that blocked the school. An evenly divided Supreme Court rejected a plan on Thursday to allow Oklahoma to use government money to run the nation’s first religious charter school, which would teach a curriculum infused by Catholic doctrine.
The Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4, blocking the attempt to establish the nation's first religious charter school.
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The Supreme Court split evenly Thursday in a high-profile challenge over the nation’s first religious charter school, leaving in place a ruling from Oklahoma’s top court that found the proposed Catholic school unconstitutional.
The justices announced they were split 4-4 in a test case heard last month from Oklahoma, which blocks the new Catholic charter school in the state.
On a more rational court, Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond would not have been close at all.
Oklahoma will not be able to launch the nation's first-ever religious public charter school after the Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 in a major case on the separation of church and state on Thursday. A key factor in the outcome was that conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett,
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday against a religious charter school in Oklahoma, upholding a court ruling saying public charter schools cannot be religious, a surprising ruling that breaks from the conservative-leaning court’s past willingness to support religion in schools.
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AlterNet on MSN'Beyond useless': MAGA slams 'Amy Commie Barrett' after she hands loss to religious rightOn Thursday, the Supreme Court came to a 4-4 tie on a case brought by Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters to allow taxpayer dollars to subsidize a Catholic charter school. ABC News reported that the stalemate — in which Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the Court's three Democratic-appointed justices — was made possible