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Carson v. Makin , 596 U.S. 767 (2022), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case related to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and the Free Exercise Clause . It was a follow-up to Espinoza v.
In June 2022, the Court ruled in Carson v. Makin that Maine's school voucher program, which as written excluded religious schools, was unconstitutional with Chief Justice John Roberts writing for the majority that "Maine's decision to continue excluding religious schools from its tuition assistance program promotes stricter separation of church ...
The Court further ruled in Carson v. Makin that states could not restrict the use of vouchers against any secular private school as long as the parents had a choice of school, as this would violate the Free Exercise Clause. By 2021 school choice students numbered 621,000, up from 200,000 in 2011.
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. Kermit L. Hall, ed. The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions. Kermit L. Hall, ed. Alley, Robert S. (1999). The Constitution & Religion: Leading Supreme Court Cases on Church and State. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. ISBN 1-57392-703-1
On June 30, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue that Montana's no-aid provision in its constitution, a Blaine amendment, had been inappropriately used to block tax-credit scholarship funds for private schooling for being used at a religious school in violation of the Free Exercise Clause.
The Colorado Supreme Court issued a completely flawed decision tonight and we will swiftly file an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and a concurrent request for a stay of this deeply ...
First Liberty, alongside the Institute for Justice, represented three families in the Supreme Court case Carson v. Makin. [28] The case centered around the limits of school vouchers offered by state governments to pay for religious-based private schools. [29] A Maine law excluded religious schools from a state tuition program, which pays for ...
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