Former AG Bill Barr, David Boies support brief in Maine religious school tuition Supreme Court case

The Supreme Court agreed this summer to take up the case, Carson v. Makin, which stems from a Maine program that provides tuition for Maine residents to attend private high schools if their local district does not have a public school.

"Maine’s law is the reflection of the relentless campaign of secularization intent on driving every vestige of traditional religion from the public square," said Barr in a release from the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI). "Maine has no objection with providing funds to students to attend private schools that aggressively instruct children about behaviors that reflect the progressive values and practices of contemporary America. Yet, in alarming contrast, Maine’s law targets and excludes those schools that instruct students on the religious practices commanded by their faith, forcing families to choose between abandoning their religious convictions and foregoing needed public assistance to which they are otherwise entitled by law. This is an unacceptable violation of the First Amendment and religious discrimination of the worst kind."