Supreme Court rules Trump can fire 2 agency heads
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Supreme Court deadlocked in religious charter school case
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The case in Philadelphia involved Alpha Painting & Construction and a project manager, Stamatios Kousisis, who was convicted of fraud in 2018.
Attorney General Gentner Drummond, also a Republican, sued to stop the school. He called the 4-4 vote “a resounding victory for religious liberty” that also will ensure that “Oklahoma taxpayers will not be forced to fund radical Islamic schools, while protecting the religious rights of families to choose any school they wish for their children.”
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan dissented as Chief Justice John Roberts backed President Donald Trump's right as commander in chief to remove members of independent agencies without cause, which Kagan argued "favors the president over our precedent.
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