“Doesn’t that create just exactly the sort of entanglement problems that we’ve tried to avoid elsewhere?” Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch inquired of Morgan Ratner, the U.S. assistant solicitor general before the court on behalf of the Trump administration.
Associate Justice Samuel Alito, who is well-known for championing religious freedom, posited that “the function of teaching a religion to new generations is central,” despite it simply figuring into a core curriculum taught by grade-school instructors at religious schools.
However, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has been a cancer patient four times, stated that it was “very disturbing” to consider that religious schools could get rid of employees for bases that have “absolutely nothing to do with religion, like needing to take care of chemotherapy.”
