The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear a case on whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma. The justices said they would review an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision invalidating a state board’s approval of an application by the Catholic Church in Oklahoma to open a … Read more
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to consider a high-profile case that could open the door to allowing public dollars to directly fund religious schools. The widely watched case out of Oklahoma could move the line between church and state in education, and it will come before a court whose conservative majority has broadly embraced … Read more
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered lower courts to review the case of the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row over concerns that prosecutors’ discussion of her sexual history rendered her trial unfair in the murder of her estranged husband. The court, over two dissenting votes, threw out a federal appeals court ruling that upheld … Read more