Carson v. Makin is the latest win for religious liberty groups before the Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative majority.
, was brought by two families who live in parts of rural Maine that don’t have a public school. Instead, families in those areas could use a taxpayer-funded tuition assistance program to send their kids to an approved private school—as long as the school was secular. Maine banned parents from using the money to send their kids to schools that provide religious education, a rule aimed at preventing public funds from being used for religious activity.
“But once a state decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious.” In her dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor argued that the decision “continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state that the Framers fought to build.” The ruling is a win for the school choice movement, which supports programs that enable parents to use public funds to send their child to schools beyond traditional public schools—an option conservative legal groups have long supported. Kevin Roberts, the President of the conservative Heritage Foundation, said in a statement that the decision protects “parents who simply want to send their kids to schools that match their values.
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