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TWO victories for We The People in our defense of our democratic Republic against the fascist drumpf / trump-musk-vance administration, the gop / greed over people-republican party and project 2025! The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the creation of a religious charter school in Oklahoma preserving the constitutional separation of church and state. These right wing "religious" extremist can impose their "christian sharia" in their own homes and churches but not in our schools. And a judge ruled the Dept of Education can not be closed and the staff must be reinstated. We must remain vigilant as the attacks against the separation of church and state as well as the Dept of Education will continue, but these wins keep our hope alive. From NPR.....
Supreme Court blocks creation of religious charter school in Oklahoma
A deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court effectively blocked the creation of the nation's first religious charter school in Oklahoma, leaving in place a state Supreme Court ruling that declared the school violated the constitutional separation of church and state.
The vote was 4-4, and the order did not specify which justice voted which way. Justice Amy Coney Barrett had recused herself from the case.
At issue in the case were two Catholic dioceses in Oklahoma that tried to establish a publicly funded Catholic school, St. Isidore of Seville, as a charter school. That move challenged both the federal charter school law and similar state laws under which charter schools are public schools that are funded by the state, closely supervised by the state, and must be nonsectarian.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the creation of a religious charter would directly contradict the state and federal constitutional bans on state-sponsored religious indoctrination.
Barrett recused herself from participating in the case. As a professor at the University of Notre Dame, she was involved with a legal clinic that advised St. Isidore.
Judge blocks Trump administration from closing the Education Department
On Thursday, a federal judge in Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction blocking President Trump and U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon from carrying out Trump's executive order calling for the secretary to close the Education Department.
The judge also told the administration to reinstate Education Department employees who lost their jobs during the reduction-in-force announced on March 11 and "to restore the Department to the status quo."
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