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It did so explicitly in response to the Supreme Court’s “separation of church and state” line of cases that began in the late 1940s and reached a crescendo with 1971’s Lemon v. Kurtzman.
Gov. Andy Beshear has allowed legislation that would return the Ten Commandments monument, which was donated by the Kentucky ...
Lemon v. Kurtzman — when considering if government interaction with religion violates the First Amendment. Under the Lemon ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Kurtzman,” the Coleman opinion reads. It was the precedent set in the 1971 Lemon decision that overturned ... a 2022 Supreme ...