SCOTUS: Maine's Tuition Assistance Program May Not Exclude Accredited Religious Schools

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The petitioners sued the commissioner of the Maine Department of Education, alleging that the "nonsectarian" requirement violated the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, as well as the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
49% : "The question presented is whether this restriction violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment."
43% : Most private schools are eligible to receive the payments, so long as they are 'nonsectarian.'
42% :Her dissent mentions the policies of the two religious schools in question that deny enrollment to students "based on gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion."

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