The U.S. Supreme Court this morning heard oral argument in the crucial First Amendment religious liberty case of Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue. The legal issue, as framed by SCOTUSblog, is “[w]hether it violates the religion clauses or the equal protection clause of the United States Constitution to invalidate a generally available and religiously neutral student-aid program simply because the program affords students the choice of attending religious schools.”
Amy Howe of SCOTUSblog contextualizes the importance of Espinoza through the prism of the Court’s recent First Amendment religious liberty jurisprudence:
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