Venue: | SCOTUS |
Facts: | School choice in Ohio: vouchers. |
Posture: | Dunno |
Issue: | Does this have the effect of advancing or inhibiting religion? |
Holding: | No. |
Rule: | When a program is neutral with respect to religion, and provides assistance directly to a broad class of citizens who, in turn, direct government aid to religious schools wholy as a result of their own private choice, the program is not readily subject to challenge under the Establishment Clause. |
Reasoning: | Nobody has to take the money, and it doesn't have to go to religious schools: that's all free choice. |
Dicta: | Lots of good dissenting. |