And while every decision is important in its own
way and precedent setting in its own way,
the major case you need to know about for today
is not abortion. We would have led with that, I promise
this one is about religion.
There are some really fascinating religious cases
in this particular Supreme Court term.
This time, it's about religion and education.
The state of Maine has a program that pays for private schools for its students,
but it will not fund religious institutions,
separation
of church
and state.
Well,
that's not the case anymore.
The Supreme Court,
in a conservative majority opinion written by chief Justice john roberts of,
you know,
all of the justices he could have picked basically saying that
if the state is not willing to fund religious institution,
that is a quote discrimination of religion,
therefore is not acceptable under the First Amendment and must be
at change.
The dissents though, from the liberal justices
were
they were strong, basically.
The idea is that they find that the court is moving the country further and
further and further away from freedom of
religion and moving it towards mandatory religion.
Right,
that taxpayers in the State of Maine now are going to have to fund religious
schools and this case will be precedent setting
for other states that have similar programs.
So now
taxpayer funds will pay for religious education
in places where it doesn't already,
and that
is certainly something the liberals disagree with,
but there's a conservative supermajority on this
court and I would expect to see more
decisions like this in the interpretation of the constitution,
from those who view it from a conservative ideological lens can,
but we are still waiting for those big, big ones.
They have not come out yet. Yeah, it's gonna be an interesting summer.
Thank you so much. Megan Pratt's live from our Washington, D. C. Studio.
Thank you as always for that report.