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 Supreme Court deadlocked Thursday in a case that decided whether Oklahoma could provide funding to a religious charter school, the justices’ first tie vote on a major case in nearly a

The Supreme Court split evenly Thursday in a high-profile challenge over the nation’s first religious charter school, leaving in place a ruling from Oklahoma’s top court that found the proposed Catholic school unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4, blocking the attempt to establish the nation's first religious charter school.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Thursday that the state of Oklahoma will not be permitted to create the first-ever religious public charter school with a deadlocked decision only a sentence in length.

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.

On a more rational court, Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond would not have been close at all.

It isn’t often that a high-profile Supreme Court case deadlocks 4-4, ending not in a majority decision and dissents but in a one-line declaration that doesn’t even reveal which justices landed on

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