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Temporary setback: Amy Coney Barrett ensures religious school fight fails in Supreme Court

2025-05-24

[NBC via MSN] A recusal by conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has ensured that Oklahoma taxpayers will not have to pay for a religious public charter school.

No doubt this issue will come up in another case in the near-ish future.

Coney Barrett would have broken the 4-4 deadlock reached by the Court Thursday. Although she did not give a reason for her recusal, The New York Times speculated that the justice's "close friendship with Nicole Stelle Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School who was an early adviser for St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, the school involved in the dispute," may have contributed.

"The decision by the evenly divided court means that a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that said the proposal to launch St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School violates both the federal Constitution and state law remains in place," NBC News reported.

Coney Barrett is an extremely conservative and religious justice who analysts expected would have supported the school's case.

The lack of a majority vote means the court did not issue a written decision.

Posted by:Besoeker

#7 Every California Hippy made up ‘religion’ will want funding as well as every other 300+ religious sects. You get the Amish treatment in my book: build your own school, on your own land and mind your own business

Posted by: Airandee 2025-05-24 15:40

#6 #4 Wanna bet they aren't already?

Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-05-24 11:04

#5 ^ that.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-05-24 10:10

#4 OTOH - do you want your taxes to go to a madrasa?

Posted by: Mercutio 2025-05-24 09:53

#3
If you're paying school taxes and your kid is attending school.

Shouldn't you be allowed to pick the nature of the school/educational agenda your tax $$$ is being for?

Like the right to demand Tax $$$ be used to only teach school educational norms and not a liberal social agenda, alt sexual ideas, and UN-Constitutional political agendas & content?

Basically, So that your kid isn't being brainwashed by the Liberal NEA agenda?

At one GA allowed $,$$$ to be applied to alternative / Private schools and the local BOE's quickly toned down Liberal BS.

Posted by: NN2N1 2025-05-24 08:22

#2 Why is it only those center or right of center recuse themselves but those of the left never do? /rhetorical question based upon numerous posting here of family members affiliated or working with NGOs,

Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-05-24 07:37

#1 I'll give her and her husband maximum points for kid raising. Beyond that it's a question mark.

Posted by: Besoeker 2025-05-24 07:33

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