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The religious right just suffered a rare setback in the Supreme Court

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22.05.2025
A man carries a large cross outside the Supreme Court. | Photo by Dominic Gwinn / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP

Surprise!

The Supreme Court announced on Thursday that it is unable to decide a case asking it to force states to fund religious charter schools. The justices split 4-4 in Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused. That means that an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision holding that the state should not and cannot fund a Catholic charter school stands, and there can be no religious public schools — for now.

At oral arguments in Oklahoma, this case appeared likely to be the latest in a series of Supreme Court decisions mandating government funding of religious........

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