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At issue in the case is whether the state, which pays for some students to attend nonsectarian private schools, should also pay tuition for students to attend religious schools.
The nine justices will hear an appeal by the families of a lower court ruling rejecting their claim that the Maine program singles them out for religious discrimination in violation of the U.S. Constitution including its First Amendment protection of the free exercise of religion.
A decision from the Supreme Court is expected by summer of 2022.
Court's conservatives say denying taxpayer funds to church schools is discrimination against religion.
Carson v. Makin shows the Supreme Court’s evolution of thought in recent decades on the separation of church and state.