The Supreme Court on Thursday, in a 4-4 ruling, said Oklahoma cannot create the nation's first religious charter school funded directly with taxpayer dollars.

The constitutionality of religious charter schools remains an open question after the U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked, 4-4, over the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School

In a 4-to-4 decision, the court upheld a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that blocked the school. An evenly divided Supreme Court rejected a plan on Thursday to allow Oklahoma to use government money to run the nation’s first religious charter school, which would teach a curriculum infused by Catholic doctrine.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court came to a 4-4 tie on a case brought by Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters to allow taxpayer dollars to subsidize a Catholic charter school. ABC News reported that the stalemate — in which Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the Court's three Democratic-appointed justices — was made possible

The Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on whether to approve the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school Thursday, leaving intact a lower ruling that voided the Oklahoma school’s

The case, a major test of the separation of church and state, was an unexpected loss for those advocating a greater role for religion in public life.

MAGA supporters online blasted the Supreme Court justice, saying Donald Trump had made a mistake in appointing her.