Fencing blocks off the area around the U.S. Supreme Court, Saturday, May 7, 2022, in Washington. A draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a Politico report released Monday. Whatever the outcome, the Politico report represents an extremely rare breach of the court’s secretive deliberation process, and on a case of surpassing importance. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades) Religious schools in Maine may not be excluded from funding available to their secular counterparts, the nation’s highest court said Tuesday morning among other decisions. “Maine’s ‘nonsectarian’ requirement for its otherwise generally available tuition assistance payments violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the court’s 6-3 decision. The case, Carson v. Makin, concerned a program in the state of Maine which offered tuition aid for private schools but excluded any school based in religion. Those schools will now be able to seek taxpayer funding for their programs along with other private institutions. The ruling, made along ideological lines with all three of the court’s liberal justices dissenting, may have an impact in neighboring Vermont, which has a […]
