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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Sotomayor warns Supreme Court ‘continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state’

REUTERS

The US Supreme Court has ruled that the state of Maine cannot exclude private Christian schools from a taxpayer-funded school voucher programme that helps students attend private schools.

The 6-3 decision from the high court’s conservative majority in the case of Carson v Makin could have wider implications for impacts to public schools and whether the government is obligated to support religious institutions on the same level as private ones.

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