Source: The Hill
“The Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on whether to approve the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school Thursday, leaving intact a lower ruling that voided the Oklahoma school’s contract. ‘The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided court,’ the court wrote in its one-sentence, unsigned opinion. Only eight justices sat for the case, since Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused. The decision lets stand a ruling from the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejecting the bid to establish St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which spurred a major constitutional battle over the role of religion in state-funded education.” (05/22/25)