Oklahoma cannot proceed with opening the nation’s first publicly funded religious school after a 4-4 Supreme Court vote.

The Supreme Court’s deadlock in the Oklahoma case keeps a lower-court ruling in place, but advocates on both sides expect a ...

Oklahoma’s top court’s ruling to block a state-funded Catholic charter school will stand after the U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked on the issue. The unsigned order, issued Thursday, reads simply: “The ...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s recusal is a setback for religious liberty — and the American people.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett took no part in a split decision that denied public funding for the nation's first ...

A divided Supreme Court rejected a plan on Thursday to allow Oklahoma to use government money to run the nation’s first ...

The creation of the nation's first religious charter school was blocked by a tie vote from the U.S. Supreme Court.

The court split 4-4, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett recusing herself from the proceedings, therefore affirming the Oklahoma ...

The case, a major test of the separation of church and state, was an unexpected loss for those advocating a greater role for ...

The court was deadlocked 4-4, which meant a state Supreme Court ruling that declared the school violated the constitutional ...

But the court did not rule on the underlying question of whether religious charter schools are constitutional.

The U.S. Supreme Court's vote on whether to allow the nation's first publicly funding religious charter school to open in Oklahoma ended in a tie.