It is absolutely imperative that we get at least two more Senate seats if we’re going to stop this corrupt Court:
Carson v. Makin is a major decision with huge consequences for state funding of religion. The conservative majority holds that the First Amendment requires Maine's taxpayers to fund explicitly religious education. That is a breathtakingly radical holding. https://t.co/saVbopQJyq
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 21, 2022
Sotomayor, dissenting: "This Court continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state that the Framers fought to build. … The consequences of the Court’s rapid transformation of the Religion Clauses must not be understated." https://t.co/saVbopQJyq
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 21, 2022
Here is Breyer asking the next logical question: Does this ruling mean that states must provide equal funding to private religious schools and public schools? Taken at face value, Roberts' decision has the potential to dismantle secular public education. https://t.co/saVbopQJyq pic.twitter.com/ICQXbBbI6o
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 21, 2022
Taxpayer dollars whether federal, state, or local should never be given to private schools.
Yesterday’s 6-3 ruling showed just how many extremist religious ideologues now sit on the court.
Maine’s law, like the laws in many other states (Florida) offers taxpayer funded tuition aid for a private school education.
Instead of finding Maine’s law unconstitutional, which it is, the Court blew apart “the wall of separation between church and state that the Framers fought so hard to build,” wrote Sonia Sotomayor in her opinion.
Here come the billions of additional taxpayers’ dollars needed to fund charter and parochial schools.
That’s one more box checked off by the Christofascist Republicans on their road to setting up their Christofascist theocracy.