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Will SCOTUS Sign Off on Religious Charter Schools?

Strict Scrutiny

Crooked Media

Philosophy, News, Government, Supreme Court, Society & Culture

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Is this the term when the Court says “see ya” to the Establishment Clause? Leah, Melissa and Kate consider that question in their recap of this week’s religious charter school case, Oklahoma Charter School Board v. Drummond. Also covered: Advocate Lisa Blatt’s run-in with Neil Gorsuch during oral arguments for a disability rights case, opinions concerning SSI benefits and the Department of Transportation, and the Trump administration’s absurd investigation into the Harvard Law Review.

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0:00.0

strict scrutiny is brought to you by Americans United for separation of church and state.

0:05.1

You don't destroy 250 years of secular democracy without gutting precedent, shattering norms, and dropping a few billion.

0:12.5

The same people and 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

0:21.8

lives. Church state separation is the bulwark blocking their agenda. One of the last bastions of

0:27.8

church state separation is our public school system. So they're pushing vouchers everywhere.

0:32.7

They're arguing for religious public schools. Yes, you heard that right, religious public schools

0:37.2

at the Supreme Court

0:38.2

in a case we just talked about. If you're listening to us, you're seeing the writing on the wall.

0:43.3

We can, we must fight back. Join Americans United for separation of church and state and their

0:48.7

growing movement because church-state separation protects us all. Learn more and get involved at atau.org slash crooked.

0:57.2

Mr. Chief Justice, may it please support.

1:01.3

It's an old joke,

1:02.5

but when I argue, man, argues against two beautiful ladies like this,

1:06.4

they're going to have the last word.

1:09.4

She spoke, not elegantly, but with unmistakable clarity.

1:14.8

She said, I ask no favor for my sex.

1:20.2

All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our legs.

1:45.7

Hello and welcome back to Strict Scrutiny, your podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it.

2:04.2

We're your hosts. I'm Melissa Murray. I'm Leah Littman. And I'm Kate Shaw. And the Supreme Court has just wrapped its April sitting. So we're going to start with a recap of the cases the court heard last week. We will also cover some developments in pending cases as well as the two opinions the court issued last week, and we will then turn to some developments in the executive branch and a bit beyond,

2:09.0

including delving into some of the political polling that was conducted to gauge public views at the administration's 100-day mark. We're a law podcast, but at this moment, law and politics

2:14.1

are even more inextricably linked than they usually are, and we are taking the glimmers of hope where we find them.

2:19.9

And we'll end the episode with some court culture, including some explicit efforts to make the pages of top law reviews white again.

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