Amy Coney Barrett may have sat out huge Supreme Court case
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The Supreme Court on Thursday, in a 4-4 ruling, said Oklahoma cannot create the nation's first religious charter school funded directly with taxpayer dollars.
Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general had argued that drastic consequences would follow if the justices sided with the school.
The Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4, blocking the attempt to establish the nation's first religious charter school.
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Thursday that the state of Oklahoma will not be permitted to create the first-ever religious public charter school with a deadlocked decision only a sentence in length.
The decision was made in Libby's favor by the mostly conservative court, with only Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor choosing to deny the move. In her dissent, Justice Jackson said the filing didn't constitute an emergency as defined by the court,
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The justices announced they were split 4-4 in a test case heard last month from Oklahoma, which blocks the new Catholic charter school in the state.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett's exchange with Trump Solicitor General John Sauer on court precedents in a birthright citizenship case draws attention and raises concerns among Trump allies.