Tennessee religious charter school fight could tee up next Supreme Court showdown
Source: msn/The Hill
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A new religious charter school fight is brewing in Tennessee that has the potential to challenge a deadlock vote at the Supreme Court earlier this year that denied the creation of a similar institution in Oklahoma. A lawsuit was recently filed in Tennessee to challenge a state law that bans religious charter schools after the state attorney general issued a legal opinion in favor of such institutions, which opponents argue flagrantly violate the separation of church and state.
Back in May, the Supreme Court deadlocked on the constitutionality of a religious charter school in Oklahoma, which would have been the nation’s first, after Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself from the case due to personal connections to one of the plaintiffs. But this new effort could allow for all the justices to vote if it is eventually taken up by the high court.
“Obviously, the Supreme Court did not come to a decision in the Drummond case. They were split evenly. And so, this case is a live issue. This matter is a live issue that the court, I think, wants to address, but is obviously going to have to have a vehicle by which to address it, which requires a lawsuit. Maybe this will be the one or not,” said Jeremy Dys, senior counsel at the First Liberty Institute.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti’s legal opinion released late last month argues the Supreme Court “held that excluding religious entities from a public benefit ‘solely because of their religious character’ penalizes free exercise and triggers the ‘most exacting scrutiny.’” Only a few days later, Christian nonprofit Wilberforce Academy sued the Knox County School Board for alleged discrimination over a ban against religious charter schools. While the process in Tennessee has only just begun, legal observers say it could follow a similar path to the one in Oklahoma, where state officials were at odds over a virtual Catholic school that was set to see taxpayer funding.
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Destroy our country! 
I look forward to hearing about the School of Satanic Excellence as well as the Druidic Academy.
Go Ents!
