Analysis: John Roberts played the long game on state funding of religious schools

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Does it mean that school districts that give vouchers for use at charter schools must pay equivalent funds to parents who wish to give their children a religious education?"
52% : The disputed program provided money for students to attend private schools in areas that lacked public high schools but excluded sectarian institutions, defined in part as those "associated with a particular faith or belief system and which, in addition to teaching academic subjects, promotes the faith or belief system with which it is associated."
50% : "Does that transformation mean that a school district that pays for public schools must pay equivalent funds to parents who wish to send their children to religious schools?
49% : And it did, by Roberts' own hand -- in 2020 and then on Tuesday, when the strategic chief justice took a giant stride and wrote the decision holding that Maine must pay for religious education as part of a tuition-assistance program for private schools.
49% : The State pays tuition for certain students at private schools -- so long as the schools are not religious.
46% : Dissenters countered that nothing in the free exercise clause would "compel" Maine to give tuition aid to private schools that will use the funds to provide a religious education, and they used Roberts' prior cases to support their position.
37% : The Supreme Court is in the final days of its annual session, negotiating on abortion rights, gun control and environmental protection, among other controversies.

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