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Supreme Court blocks Oklahoma from funding religious schools [1]
['Rob Beschizza']
Date: 2025-05-22
Oklahoma, challenging America's constitutional restrictions on government support for religion, wanted to funnel taxpayer money to religious charter schools in the state. Today the U.S. Supreme Court sided with a lower court's block on the plans, ruling 4-4 to let that ruling stand.
When the supreme court is evenly divided, the lower court's decision stands. The justices did not provide a rationale for their action in the unsigned ruling. It was not disclosed how each member of the bench voted, though it is likely that the three liberal-leaning justices favored upholding the block and if that was indeed the case it poses the intriguing question of which conservative-leaning justice joined them.
The recusal of Trump pick Amy Coney Barrett, who has a professional association with the schools' organizers, likely kept the court from crafting a loophole in the separation clause. The votes weren't named, but commentators suspect Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the liberals to keep the count a tie—a suprise decision, reports Marina Dunbar.
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