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Originally Posted by Pio1980

Alabama justice's ties with far-right Christian movement raise concern https://www.npr.org/2024/02/27/12339...an-nationalist
Has anyone responded to this being an unconstititional application of religious test of/for law?

Constitution Article VI sec 3 is where religious tests are banned, but they are talking about religious tests to hold public office. What you are talking about would have to be the establishment clause, found at the beginning of the first anendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...." Traditionally the Supreme Court has used words like endorse, indoctrinate and fostering entanglement to describe government actions that violate the amendment. And the court has been sensitive to even indirect coercion motivated by religion. If the current court followed generations of Supreme Court precedent, there is no way the frankly religious Alabama ruling could stand. But the current court, of course, is pretty much a 'precedent be damned' court.