JTN:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that refusing tuition assistance to students attending religious schools when it is offered to secular private schools is unconstitutional.
Chief Justice Roberts wrote the majority opinion in the 6-3 ruling – consistent with the conservative-liberal composition of the high court.
Justices Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor casted the dissenting votes.
In the case, Carson v. Makin, Maine’s department of education had instituted a policy that would pay tuition to some students who attend private schools if their district did not offer a public school. more here
Take that General Mills you lefttard!!!
Government schools are now closer than ever to being irrelevant!
This is precisely what I was talking about the other day. Honestly, it doesn’t take a “Constitutional Scholar” to understand just how illegal this policy is/was. And yet, how many people were affected by this garbage policy in the meantime?! And then it took a lawsuit to correct it.
I know there is a separation of powers between State supreme courts and their legislatures, etc., but isn’t there some sort of mechanism for the audit of the legality of this crap that continuously rolls out of the gov’t besides lawsuits?
I hope those bringing action are well-rewarded for their efforts, but it won’t change that their kids were negatively affected by not having a choice.
This had to go all the way to SCOTUS. Mills was a lawyer, mostly in govt, all her life. She personally knows the judges all over the state. They’re like a cult. They protect each other.
Lawsuits that challenged unconstitutional curbs on rights succeeded in other states. In Maine the judges scolded those who dared file suit against Herr Mills.
This school law has been challenged numerous times but it costs a lot of money to continue them up to SCOTUS.
We pay well over $1700 in taxes to public schools.
We choose to have a Christian Education, without all the wokisms and perversion pushed in the bloated, cash rich public school system.
The public school system is broken, yet the taxes have become burdensome and the curriculum is filled with present day revisionist garbage.
We get absolutely none of the education tax dollars to offset the Tuition we pay for a Christian Education. School Choice should not be subject to financial punishment, we should have access to the tax dollars we pay for a better education for the children.
@cato June 21, 2022 at 6:40 pm
> we should have access to the tax dollars we pay for a better education for the children
Because “Kill the Dane”, rather than “Pay the Dane”, is too complicated?
(n.b. I didn’t write “easier” — I wrote “complicated”.)
Can the end of the no prayer in school edict be far behind?