US EditionJudge strikes down Minnesota law banning religious tests for college credit program
- On Friday, U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel struck down a Minnesota law banning religious colleges from requiring faith statements for dual enrollment program participation.
- The law, passed in 2023 by a Democrat-controlled Legislature seeking to protect LGBTQ+ rights, barred colleges with faith-based admission policies from the Postsecondary Enrollment Options program.
- The University of Northwestern and Crown College, represented by the Becket Fund, sued with families arguing the law violated First Amendment religious freedoms and affected about 60,000 students.
- Judge Brasel’s 70-page ruling called the ban unconstitutional, noting the First Amendment protects religious organizations once states fund private education and that families lose free exercise rights when excluded.
- The ruling restores access for conservative Christian colleges to the state-funded program and signals legal limits on legislatures restricting religious-based student requirements in education funding.
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The Daily Signal
UpstractJudge Strikes Walz-Backed Law for Discriminating Against Religious Schools
A federal judge Friday struck down a Minnesota law barring colleges that require statements of faith from a state-funded program. U.S. District Judge Nancy E. Brasel said the law, signed by then-Gov. Tim Walz in 2023, violated both the First Amendment and the Minnesota Constitution by disqualifying “‘some private schools’ from funding ‘solely because they are religious.’” The case concerned a state program that allows high schoolers to earn coll…
Judge strikes down Minnesota law banning religious schools from credit program
The campus of Crown College in Minnesota. / Credit: Clappert, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 25, 2025 / 14:06 pm (CNA). A federal judge has ruled that Christian colleges that require students to sign a statement of faith cannot be excluded from a Minnesota program that lets high school students take college courses for credit.On Friday, Aug. 22, United States District Judge Nancy Brasel ruled that the law bann…
Federal Court Strikes Down Minnesota's PSEO Amendment, Citing Religious Freedom Violations
Judge rules state law banning faith-based admission statements for postsecondary enrollment is unconstitutional, invalidating the entire measure. A federal court in Minnesota has ruled a state law, which sought to regulate the admission policies of private colleges participating in the Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program, is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Nancy E. Brasel granted summary […] Federal Court Strikes Down Minnesota…
The Daily Caller
Conservative ReviewTrump-Appointed Judge Rules Blue State Cannot Discriminate Against Colleges Requiring Religious Test
A judge overturned a Minnesota law that prohibited religious schools from qualifying for the dual enrollment program if the schools require faith statements.
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