{"id":16347,"date":"2025-03-30T15:21:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T15:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/will-religions-remarkable-winning-streak-at-the-supreme-court-continue\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T15:21:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T15:21:58","slug":"will-religions-remarkable-winning-streak-at-the-supreme-court-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/will-religions-remarkable-winning-streak-at-the-supreme-court-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Religion\u2019s Remarkable Winning Streak at the Supreme Court Continue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It has been almost three years since the Supreme Court last heard arguments in a case that turned on one of the religion clauses of the First Amendment, a curious lull in what had been a signature project for the court led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.: to bolster the place of faith in public life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The hiatus is over. In the space of a month this spring, the court will hear three important religion cases. The first one, to be argued Monday, asks whether a Catholic charity in Wisconsin should receive a tax exemption. In April, the court will consider whether a Catholic charter school in Oklahoma is constitutional and whether parents with religious objections to the curriculum in Maryland schools may withdraw their children from classes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Taken together, the three cases will test the limits of the court\u2019s assertive vision of religious liberty, which has been one of its distinctive commitments for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since 2012, when the court <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/12\/us\/supreme-court-recognizes-religious-exception-to-job-discrimination-laws.html\" title=\"\">unanimously ruled<\/a> that religious groups were often exempt from employment discrimination laws, the pro-religion side has won all but one of the 16 signed decisions in argued cases that concerned the First Amendment\u2019s prohibition of government establishment of religion and its protection of the free exercise of religion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cReligious liberty has been on a winning streak at the Supreme Court since 2012,\u201d said Eric Rassbach, a lawyer with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents the plaintiffs in two of the three cases to be argued this spring. \u201cIt isn\u2019t yet on par with freedom of speech, but it is getting a lot closer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh expressed satisfaction with the general trend in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.law.edu\/news-and-events\/2024\/09\/2024-0926-KavanaughTalk.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">remarks at Catholic University\u2019s Columbus School of Law<\/a> in September. Asked to identify \u201csome of the big themes of the court\u2019s religious liberty cases in recent years,\u201d he said, \u201cWe\u2019ve made, in my view, correct and important strides\u201d in \u201crecognizing the constitutional protection of religious equality and religious liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Not everyone is happy with the general trend or where it seems to be heading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis spring\u2019s trio of religion cases threatens nothing less than to raze foundational structures of American law and life,\u201d said Justin Driver, a law professor at Yale, adding that the court has been steadily moving the protection of free exercise to center stage while relegating the concerns about government entanglement with religion to the wings. The two education cases, Professor Driver said, are particularly fraught.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe Supreme Court this term could quite plausibly destroy the American public school as we have known it for the last several decades,\u201d he said. \u201cOf course, many conservatives will regard that destruction not as a vice, but a virtue.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There has been one exception to religion\u2019s winning streak at the court in the last decade: the justices\u2019 <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/26\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-trump-travel-ban.html\" title=\"\">rejection in 2018<\/a> of a challenge to the first Trump administration\u2019s ban on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That is telling, said Rachel Laser, the president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. \u201cThe law used to bend over backwards to protect religious minorities,\u201d she said. \u201cNow it\u2019s Christians, and oftentimes conservative Christians, who are repeatedly being favored by Supreme Court rulings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The court has ruled in recent years that state programs supporting private schools in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/21\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-maine-religious-schools.html\" title=\"\">Maine<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/30\/us\/supreme-court-religious-schools-aid.html\" title=\"\">Montana<\/a> must allow parents to choose religious ones, a boon to Christian schools. On April 30, the court will hear arguments on a variation on that question, but with an important twist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The new case asks whether Oklahoma must use government money to pay for a religious charter school, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, to be operated by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa and dedicated to infusing its curriculum with Catholic teaching.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The schools in the earlier cases were private. Under Oklahoma law, charter schools are public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt would be a sea change to allow public schools, or any schools that are directly funded with tax dollars, to be religious schools,\u201d Ms. Laser said. \u201cYou\u2019re talking about your neighborhood school becoming a Sunday school.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Gentner Drummond, Oklahoma\u2019s attorney general, a Republican, opposed the religious charter school, and the Oklahoma Supreme Court <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/oklahoma\/supreme-court\/2024\/121694.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ruled against it<\/a>, saying it violated the First Amendment\u2019s prohibition of government establishment of religion and the state Constitution\u2019s ban on spending public money to support religious institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In its brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/24\/24-394\/351350\/20250305181244391_24-396%2024-394%20Brief%20for%20Petitioner.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the school argued<\/a> that it is like the ones in the cases from Maine and Montana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">St. Isidore \u201chopes to offer another educational <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">option<\/em> for Oklahomans, and no student will be compelled to attend St. Isidore,\u201d the brief said. \u201cRather, the school will receive students, and state funding, only through the private choices of families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia, said the case, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/docket\/docketfiles\/html\/public\/24-394.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond<\/a>, No. 24-394, \u201calmost just comes down to an issue of characterization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIs a charter school a public school with private management, or is it a private school with public funding?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself from the case but has not said why. She is a former law professor at Notre Dame, whose religious liberty clinic <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/24\/24-394\/351350\/20250305181244391_24-396%2024-394%20Brief%20for%20Petitioner.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">represents the charter school<\/a>, and is close friends with Nicole Garnett, a professor there who has assisted St. Isidore.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A second case involving schools, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/docket\/docketfiles\/html\/public\/24-297.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mahmoud v. Taylor<\/a>, No. 24-297, will be argued on April 22 and asks whether the Constitution gives parents of public school students the right to have their children excused from classroom discussion of storybooks featuring L.G.B.T.Q. characters and themes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland\u2019s largest school system, introduced the storybooks in the fall of 2022. For most of that academic year, school administrators gave parents notice when the storybooks were to be discussed, along with the opportunity to have their children excused from those sessions. But in the spring of 2023 the school system announced that it would no longer give parents notice or let them opt out of the classes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The school system\u2019s lawyers <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/24\/24-297\/335502\/20241218150621210_24-297%20-%20Mahmoud%20v.%20Taylor%20-%20Brief%20in%20Opposition.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told the justices<\/a> opt-out requests were hard to administer, led to high student absenteeism and stigmatized and isolated students who believed the books represented them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Several parents, including Muslims and Roman Catholics, sued, saying the new policy burdened their religious rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Michael McConnell, a law professor at Stanford and a former federal appeals court judge who filed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/24\/24-297\/351567\/20250310114903746_Amicus%20Brief.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a brief supporting the parents<\/a>, said the curriculum was an assault on religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe underlying issue here is whether public schools should be used as an instrument of ideological persuasion,\u201d he said. \u201cThese textbooks are for teaching reading, and to my mind it\u2019s highly objectionable that in choosing which books to teach for reading they don\u2019t choose them on the basis of their literary or grammatical or other value but rather because they\u2019re trying to undermine parental beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Professor Driver, who filed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/law.yale.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/documents\/pdf\/23-1890%20-%20Amicus%20Brief%20of%20Prof.%20Justin%20Driver.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a brief supporting the school system<\/a>, saw it differently. \u201cA decision enabling parents to flyspeck public schools\u2019 curricular decisions would bring the American educational system to a grinding halt,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The third case, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/docket\/docketfiles\/html\/public\/24-154.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor &amp; Industry Review Commission<\/a>, No. 24-154<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">, <\/strong>to be argued Wednesday,<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"> <\/strong>asks whether Wisconsin was free to deny a tax exemption to a Catholic charity on the grounds that its activities were not primarily religious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/24\/24-154\/311745\/20240528115054673_CCB%20v.%20WI%20Mot%20for%20Extension%20Appendix--opinion.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled<\/a> that because the charity does not \u201cattempt to imbue program participants with the Catholic faith nor supply any religious materials to program participants or employees,\u201d its work does not qualify for the exemption. Another strike against the charity, the court said, was that it did not limit employment or its services on the basis of religion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A dissenting justice said the majority had been wrong to \u201canswer theological questions well beyond the judiciary\u2019s purview.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If history is a reliable guide, the arguments from the charter school, the charity and the parents will receive a friendly reception at the court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/epstein.wustl.edu\/religionincourt\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">A 2021 study<\/a> of religion rulings in argued cases since Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined the court in 2005 found that the nature of its rulings had changed from those issued by the courts led by Chief Justices Earl Warren, Warren E. Burger and William H. Rehnquist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The study, conducted by Lee Epstein, of Washington University in St. Louis, and Eric Posner, of the University of Chicago, found that the Roberts court ruled in favor of religious people and groups over 83 percent of the time, compared to about 50 percent of the time for other courts since 1953.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn most of these cases, the winning religion was a mainstream Christian organization, whereas in the past pro-religion outcomes more frequently favored minority or marginal religious organizations,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The study considered cases that turned on the First Amendment\u2019s religion clauses, but religion has also figured in other cases. In 2023, for instance, the court <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/29\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-religion-sabbath-postal-worker.html\" title=\"\">unanimously ruled<\/a> in favor of a postal worker who refused to work on his Sabbath under an employment discrimination law. That same year, it <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/30\/us\/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage.html\" title=\"\">split 6-to-3<\/a> in favor of a web designer who did not want to create sites for same-sex weddings under the First Amendment\u2019s free speech clause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The rate of pro-religion rulings from the Roberts court has risen since the study was conducted, to 86 percent, Professor Epstein found. 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