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BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban On Taxpayer Funding For Religious Schools, Roberts Joins Conservative Majority

Emily Zanotti
BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban On Taxpayer Funding For Religious Schools, Roberts Joins Conservative Majority
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Chief Justice John Roberts again jumped the aisle, siding with the Supreme Court’s conservatives in a landmark decision issued Tuesday, striking down a Montana law preventing taxpayer-funded scholarship money from going to the state’s religious schools.

Roberts authored the opinion in the court’s school choice case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, backing a Montana “tax-credit scholarship program” that gave families $150 in state tax credits if they chose to donate to a scholarship program to help other families afford to attend religious or private schools.

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