TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 22, 2022

The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a Maine education policy that made K-12 schools with religious instruction ineligible for taxpayer-backed tuition aid, continuing the conservative majority court’s general trend of ruling for religious interests, The Hill reports. Though the case does not affect Tennessee, some observers says it bolsters that state’s arguments for a robust school choice program. The court also ruled that non-citizens can be detained indefinitely under federal immigration law without bond hearings and that federal judges lack the authority to order the government to release immigrants who have been detained without hearings on a class-wide basis. Read more about that decision from Reuters.