A 1982 Maine law excluding religious schools from a rural-area, public school tuition payment program is unconstitutional, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.

In an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., the court’s conservative majority continued its expansive view of the demands of the First Amendment’s free exercise clause on government funding programs. Five of the six conservative justices attended religious schools.

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