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The same people in groups that backed Project 2025 are part of a larger shadow network that's relentlessly pushing to impose a Christian nationalist agenda on our laws and our lives.

Church state separation is a bulwark that blocks their agenda.

One of the last bastions of church state separation is our public school system.

So they are pushing vouchers everywhere.

They are arguing for religious public schools.

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Religious public schools. And they argued

for it at the Supreme Court last term, which we talked about a lot on this podcast.

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All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet or for next. Hello, Hello and welcome back to strict scrutiny, your podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it.

We're your hosts. I'm Melissa Murray. I'm Leah Littman. And I'm Kate Shaw. We have now had a few days to step back from the term, which means we are ready, or as ready as we

will ever be, for our term recap. So we're going to highlight some big term themes, share our takes

on the biggest opinions of the year, and take a walk through some of the moments from the term that

will forever be seared into our memories. So one theme that I'd like to highlight just to get us

started is this idea that the

court giveth and the court taketh away. And by that, I mean, the court sometimes gives us good stuff,

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