{"id":10017,"date":"2011-04-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/06\/justices-allow-tax-credit-for-religious-tuition-full-summary\/"},"modified":"2011-04-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T12:00:00","slug":"justices-allow-tax-credit-for-religious-tuition-full-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/06\/justices-allow-tax-credit-for-religious-tuition-full-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Justices Allow Tax Credit for Religious Tuition (Full Summary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/05\/us\/05scotus.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[HPI note: There was a problem with this article yesterday, which caused it to be cut short. It is being re-sent, with the full summary text.]<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, DC, USA, April 4, 2010 (The New York Times): The Supreme Court on Monday effectively upheld an Arizona program that aids religious schools, saying in a 5-to-4 decision that the plaintiffs had no standing to challenge it.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Elena Kagan, in her first dissent, said the majority had laid waste to the doctrine of &#8220;taxpayer standing,&#8221; which allows suits from people who object to having tax money spent on religious matters. &#8220;The court&#8217;s opinion,&#8221; Justice Kagan wrote, &#8220;offers a road map &#8212; more truly, a one-step instruction &#8212; to any government that wishes to insulate its financing of religious activity from legal challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She offered examples. &#8220;Suppose a state desires to reward Jews &#8212; by, say, $500 per year &#8212; for their religious devotion,&#8221; she wrote. Would it matter to taxpayers offended by the practice whether the reward came in the form of a government stipend or a tax credit?<\/p>\n<p>The decision divided the court along the usual ideological lines, with the other three more liberal members &#8212; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor &#8212; joining the dissent.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona program gives taxpayers there a dollar-for-dollar state tax credit of up to $500 for donations to private &#8220;student tuition organizations.&#8221; The organizations are permitted to limit the scholarships they offer to schools of a given religion, and many of them do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source [HPI note: There was a problem with this article yesterday, which caused it to be cut short. It is,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}