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US Supreme Court Divided Over Church-state Separation

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In 1785 James madison warned against taxing Virginians to pay salaries for teachers of Christianity. On June 21st, 237 years later, the Supreme Court has come out against the chief author of the Bill of Rights and Thomas Jefferson's vision of a wall of separation between church and state.

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News18 India

US Supreme Court Divided Over Church-State Separation

Sonia Sotomayor, a liberal justices on the Supreme Court, is accusing her conservative majority colleagues of tearing down the wall separating church and state.

2 years ago·India

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Real Clear Politics

Court Strikes Another Blow to Separation of Church & State

In a new ruling, the theocrats on the court turned one of the nation's fundamental principles on its head.

2 years ago·Chicago, United States

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Alternet

Legal expert slams the Supreme Court’s right-wing supermajority for dismantling separation of church and state

On Tuesday, June 21, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 ruling in Carson v. Makin — a case involving private religious schools and taxpayer-funded tuition assistance. The High Court’s right-wing supermajority ruled that yes, taxpayer dollars can be used for tuition assistance for strict Christian fundamentalist schools — even if they have discriminatory practices such as excluding gay students. Legal expert Elie Mystal examines this ruling…

2 years ago·Washington, United States

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Vox

The Supreme Court tears a new hole in the wall separating church and state

Carson v. Makin is a serious, but not fatal, blow to the wall separating church and state.

2 years ago·United States

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Dominion Post

The Supreme Court decimates separation of church and state - Dominion Post

Remember when conservatives decried the pre-Trump Supreme Court as an “activist court” because it dared to — gasp! — uphold human rights?Those same conservatives are oddly quiet now that the U.S. actually does have an “activist” Supreme Court — one that has delighted in overturning decades, sometimes centuries, of precedent and in deliberately misreading the Constitution despite many of its most extreme justices calling themselves “originalists.…

2 years ago

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