Off the Bench

The courts are coming to conclusions. 

Yesterday, a split Supreme Court blocked a plan to turn a private Catholic school in Oklahoma into the nation’s first taxpayer-funded religious charter school. Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself, enabling a 4-4 split which upheld the Oklahoma State Supreme Court’s earlier ruling—religious charter schools violate the First Amendment’s separation of church and state.

Meanwhile, a federal district judge found that Uncle Sam “unquestionably violated” a court order—saying migrants must be given 10 days to challenge deportations to countries not their own—when several men were deported to war-torn South Sudan with less than 24 hours’ notice. Homeland Security argued the judge’s orders were “unclear,” the men were “uniquely barbaric monsters” convicted of violent crimes, and that South Sudan wasn’t their final destination. 

The judge did not immediately punish anyone.

Verse to consider whether justice is thwarted or wins out… “But the Lord sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for judgment. And he judges the world with righteousness; he executes judgment on the nations with fairness. The Lord is a refuge for the persecuted, a refuge in times of trouble. Those who know your name trust in you because you have not abandoned those who seek you, Lord.” 
Psalm 9:7–10 (CSB) (read full passage)