Supreme Court Strikes Down Maine's Ban on Funding for Religious Schools

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : The no-aid provision triggered strict scrutiny because it excluded "religious schools from public benefits solely because of the religious character of the schools," the chief justice wrote, quoting Espinoza."'A State need not subsidize private education,' we concluded, [b]ut once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious."
51% : The petitioners filed suit in 2018, claiming the "nonsectarian" requirement of the tuition assistance program offended the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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