Supreme Court takeaways: Key moments in oral arguments in religious charter school case

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : " The court's decision is expected to turn on whether charter schools, which are publicly funded but have private operators, are public schools under the law.
53% : He quoted the attorney general as saying many Oklahomans likely support charter schools for Christian faiths, but that support would require the state to approve similar schools from all faiths.
53% : Sauer, representing the federal government, said states that don't want to allow religious private schools could restructure their programs.
52% : Half the public schools are charter schools in other places, such as Denver or Washington, D.C., he said.
52% : In Oklahoma, there are jurisdictions where children are assigned to charter schools by default, Garre said.
50% : Justices question whether religious schools could meet state curriculum requirements Roberts asked how extensively the state could require charter schools to teach certain subjects, such as history.
48% : Justice Sonia Sotomayor said charter schools are public because they're funded by the taxpayers.
47% : In some jurisdictions, such as New Orleans, the only public schools are charter schools, according to Garre, who was defending the state supreme court's position.
46% : Concerns about opening the door to public funding for religious charter schools of all faiths "reeks of hostility," one said.
43% : But Gregory Garre, who defended the state supreme court's ruling rejecting the Catholic charter, pointed to landmark rulings against teaching religion in public schools.
42% : But he later also told Garre, the attorney defending the policy, that his argument for why charter schools are public didn't seem to square with the court's past decisions.
39% : If they're not public schools, the government could be discriminating when it prohibits the church from participating in the state's charter school program.
39% : The court would also be putting itself in a position to judge future cases about whether charter schools could exclude gay teachers or teach creationism rather than evolution, Garre said.
38% : But Garre, who represented Oklahoma, said every charter school law in more than 40 states would become unconstitutional because they all require charter schools to be public and nonsectarian.
34% : Some states might change their laws to adapt and ramp up charter schools, but others would abandon charter schools to avoid teaching religion, he said.
18% : Justice Amy Coney Barrett, appointed by Donald Trump following Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, recused herself from the case.)

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