Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Amicus Curiae
Diana M. Verm, Counsel of Record
In the decision below, the Montana Supreme Court applied the Montana Blaine Amendment to a neutral scholarship program, striking it down entirely because it provided “indirect” aid to religious schools.
This decision contained many of the elements of this Court’s recent Free Exercise case, Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer (2017): a state Blaine Amendment that prohibits aid …