It's Friday, May 23rd. I'm Jane Koston. This is Wadaday, the show that's excited to watch

the new Mission Impossible movie tonight to confirm my personal hunch that Tom Cruise firmly believes

he cannot die and is going to keep trying to prove it. On today's show, the Justice Department files murder charges against a man suspected of killing two staffers at the Israeli embassy in D.C., and the U.S. Treasury gets ready to bid adieu to the penny.

But let's start with the Supreme Court again.

On Thursday, the court did two very important things.

First, it deadlocked on a case involving

the creation of a religious charter school in Oklahoma. The justices' four-four split leaves

in place the ruling of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, which had blocked the school. And yes, this was a very

big deal. When the school and the state's charter board went to the U.S. Supreme Court in a bid to

reverse the Oklahoma court's ruling, it's clear that at least one of the court's charter board went to the U.S. Supreme Court in a bid to reverse the Oklahoma

court's ruling, it's clear that at least one of the courts' conservatives seemed a little

concerned about the possible precedent a state creating and funding a religious school might set.

We don't know who. The opinion didn't say how the justices voted. And because Justice Amy

Coney-Barritt had recused herself from the case, we got a deadlock.

This was a case about state-promoted religion, an issue that will definitely come up again.

What else will come up again? Shadow docket decisions, which is just a sinister sounding term for when

the court weighs in on cases that aren't on its official schedule. The justices did just that late

Thursday when they let President Donald Trump temporarily remove the leaders of two independent

agencies, the Merit Systems Protection Board, which handles employment disputes, and the National

Labor Relations Board, which helps protect private sector workers. And that's before we even get

to all the drama happening in the

lower courts, with the battles there over major parts of Trump's agenda, especially immigration.

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