1. What issue is at the center of both the Trinity Lutheran and Espinoza cases?
Whether states can subsidize secular education without subsidizing religious education.
2. How does Justice Kagan argue that banning ALL funding to religious institutions would be ridiculous?
That the way the law is read it would require fire agencies to let a church burn if it caught fire.
3. What choice do the plaintiffs argue that these bans force on students?
They must choose between their religion of thousands of dollars of government aid.
4. According to the Census, what's the average amount that states spend on each public school student?
$11,392
5. How did Chief Justice John Roberts explain the Court's decision in Trinity Lutheran?
That Missouri was preventing an action solely based on religion and thereby hindering their free exercise of it, but then said it only applied to playgrounds.
6. Because of the current makeup of the court, how do the authors predict that the Court will settle the Espinoza case?
It is likely the courts will decide in favor of having to fund religious education.
7. What issue is at the heart of both of these Pennsylvania cases?
The administration's rules allowing any place of employment from denying birth control.
8. What court precedent was established in the 1982 case US v Lee?
When one owns a business they cannot impose their views on others.
9. How did the Trump Administration expand the effects of the ruling in the Hobby Lobby case?
The Trump administration pushed new guidelines out via executive order and allowed any privately owned, non-profit or for-profit organization to object on moral grounds.
10. How do Trump's additions to the Court help predict the outcome of these cases?
They were both conservative and very likely to side in favor of moral objections.
Whether states can subsidize secular education without subsidizing religious education.
2. How does Justice Kagan argue that banning ALL funding to religious institutions would be ridiculous?
That the way the law is read it would require fire agencies to let a church burn if it caught fire.
3. What choice do the plaintiffs argue that these bans force on students?
They must choose between their religion of thousands of dollars of government aid.
4. According to the Census, what's the average amount that states spend on each public school student?
$11,392
5. How did Chief Justice John Roberts explain the Court's decision in Trinity Lutheran?
That Missouri was preventing an action solely based on religion and thereby hindering their free exercise of it, but then said it only applied to playgrounds.
6. Because of the current makeup of the court, how do the authors predict that the Court will settle the Espinoza case?
It is likely the courts will decide in favor of having to fund religious education.
7. What issue is at the heart of both of these Pennsylvania cases?
The administration's rules allowing any place of employment from denying birth control.
8. What court precedent was established in the 1982 case US v Lee?
When one owns a business they cannot impose their views on others.
9. How did the Trump Administration expand the effects of the ruling in the Hobby Lobby case?
The Trump administration pushed new guidelines out via executive order and allowed any privately owned, non-profit or for-profit organization to object on moral grounds.
10. How do Trump's additions to the Court help predict the outcome of these cases?
They were both conservative and very likely to side in favor of moral objections.
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