Alito slams Oklahoma's 'unsavory discrimination history' in case over Catholic charter school

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The ruling has far-reaching potential to affect charter schools across the nation.
55% : "Using history in this case is crazy," the justice snapped, "because during early history, no one thought there was an obligation of the government to provide funding [for schools] at all." "We don't use the history of segregation to interpret the equal protection clause now," she continued.
52% : Further, because it sets up something of a contest between the establishment clause -- the section of the Constitution that ensures separation of church and state via a prohibition of government endorsement of a religion -- and the free exercise clause -- the section that prohibits the government from making laws that impede the free exercise of religion -- the consequences threaten to reach even beyond schoolhouse walls.
50% : Meanwhile, the Court's liberal flank predictably pushed back on the legality of permitting government funding for a religious school.
50% : Alito, who has often spoken of religion being "under attack," doubled down and asked, "Do you think that anti-Catholic bigotry had disappeared from Oklahoma by 1907?" With Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, recused from the case, due to a friendship with a professor who advised St. Isidore, the outcome could come down to Chief Justice John Roberts, who did not show his hand clearly.
48% : Justice Neil Gorsuch appeared to be convinced that the charter school is not a government entity given the lack of supervision by a local school board -- thereby circumventing any constitutional issues relevant to government action.
47% : "These are state-run institutions," Kagan said, and argued that allowing this Catholic school to receive a charter despite Oklahoma's rule against it would amount to giving St. Isidore's -- and by extension, other schools -- to simply "strike" portions of state law with which they disagree.
39% : Under state law, charter schools must be nonreligious "in their programs, admissions policies, and other operations."

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