Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.
New case: In 2023, South Carolina enacted a law providing $6,000 education scholarship accounts for low-income families to be used for a virtually unlimited number of education expenses: textbooks, tutoring, homeschool materials, therapies, and tuition and fees at private and out-of-district public schools. But in response to a recent state supreme court ruling, officials have barred families from using the ESAs for private school tuition. So this week, IJ filed a petition in the South Carolina Supreme Court, arguing that the new policy falls afoul of two bedrock, towering, and monumental U.S. Supreme Court cases: Meyer v. Nebraska, which recognized the right of parents to direct the education of their children; and Pierce v. Society of Sisters, which held that this right includes the right to send one's children to a private school. Click here to learn more.
New on the Short Circuit podcast: Chicago attorney Patrick Eckler joins the podcast to share a trainwreck of a Seventh Circuit oral argument.
