One difference in Oklahoma’s bill and a nearly identical Louisiana bill is that the Bayou State legislation required the ...

In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court provided these zealots a legal gift, in Lemon v. Kurtzman, holding that, when it came to public expressions of faith, government action must have a secular purpose ...

Lemon v. Kurtzman — when considering if government interaction with religion violates the First Amendment. Under the Lemon test, the government can only assist religion if the main purpose is ...

Readers of Bench Memos well know that the Supreme Court broke the establishment clause about 45 years ago with its decision in Lemon v. Kurtzman. That decision exiled standard constitutional ...

The law seeks to overturn the 1971 case of Lemon v. Kurtzman, in which the justices ruled the government could not provide funding to nonsecular schools without violating the Establishment Clause.