SCOTUS watch: Fantasy land, Washington v Washington, and a big win for religious expression in education

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : That provision was enacted in response to an opinion by the Maine attorney general taking the position that public funding of private religious schools violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
53% : But once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious."
51% : Maine chose to allow some parents to direct state tuition payments to private schools; that decision was not "forced upon" it.
49% : The State pays tuition for certain students at private schools -- so long as the schools are not religious.
48% : In 1981, however, Maine imposed a new requirement that any school receiving tuition assistance payments must be "a nonsectarian school in accordance with the First Amendment of the United States Constitution."
45% : They can sign contracts with nearby public schools, or they can pay tuition at a private school chosen by parents so long as it is, in the words of a state law, "a nonsectarian school in accordance with the First Amendment of the United States Constitution."

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