Supreme Court deadlocked in religious charter school case
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Attorney General Gentner Drummond, also a Republican, sued to stop the school. He called the 4-4 vote “a resounding victory for religious liberty” that also will ensure that “Oklahoma taxpayers will not be forced to fund radical Islamic schools, while protecting the religious rights of families to choose any school they wish for their children.”
The justices announced they were split 4-4 in a test case heard last month from Oklahoma, which blocks the new Catholic charter school in the state.
But Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond disagreed and sued the charter school board, arguing that allowing St. Isidore to join the public charter school program amounts to the state sponsoring a particular religion. After the state’s high court ruling, the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court.