Retired Justice Souter, Advocate for Civics and Church-State Split, Dies at 85

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : " Souter was a strong proponent of a strict separation when it came to government embrace of religion in public education or state aid to religious schools.
50% : In 2002, in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, Souter wrote a bitter dissent from the court's decision to uphold an Ohio program that created a pilot voucher program for Cleveland in which parents of that city's schoolchildren could choose to send them to private religious schools at public expense.

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