Analysis: John Roberts wrote three cases dissolving the separation of church and state. Will he take another leap of faith?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : " Garre also emphasized that while the court has enhanced public funding for religious entities, Roberts wrote for the majority in 2022 that "states may choose to provide a strictly secular education.
54% : The court said Maine could not exclude religious private schools from a tuition payment program.
51% : He began in a limited vein in 2017, requiring Missouri to pay for playground resurfacing at a church school as it did for non-religious places.
51% : " The St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School now argues that the trio of cases leads unavoidably to a ruling that would require states to finance religious public charter schools.
51% : " Yet most justices homed in on potential state actions that would exclude religion, and Roberts referred to yet another decision he'd written that involved the free exercise of religion, the 2021 case of Fulton v. Philadelphia.
46% : Kagan also asked Gregory Garre, arguing on behalf of the Oklahoma attorney general fighting a state contract for the St. Isidore school, to highlight what would happen if the justices suddenly transformed the nature of schools in Oklahoma and the more than 40 other states that regard charter schools to be public.
46% : They're not controlled by the state in the way that charter schools are," Garre said.
44% : " Roberts' colleagues returned to the Fulton case, too, raising the specter that a ruling against St. Isidore would hurt, as Justice Brett Kavanaugh said, "the senior homes, food banks, hospitals that receive government funding, participate in government programs, like the foster care program.
35% : In that controversy, the high court sided with a Catholic foster care agency that had been denied a contract with the city of Philadelphia because it rejected same-sex couples as potential foster parents.
31% : "First, every charter school law and the federal charter school program is unconstitutional, because they all require that charter schools be public schools and that they be nonsectarian," Garre said.

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