John Oliver used his perch on Last Week Tonight to look ahead to an upcoming supreme court case over the charter school St Isidore of Seville in Oklahoma, which seeks to become the first religious charter school in the country. If the court rules in its favor, the school would receive public funds for an explicitly Catholic education, marking what Oliver called on Sunday evening “yet another step on the slippery slope of breaking down the establishment clause separating church and state”.
The supreme courtwill probably not rule on this particular case until next month, but Oliver trained on the “key group” behind the case: the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). “Even if you don’t recognize their name, you’re familiar with their work,” he explained. In their own words, ADF is “the world’s largest legal organization advancing every person’s God-given right to live and speak the truth”.
