Injunction halts New Jersey constitutional provision barring taxpayer funding for building or repairing houses of worship

Surveying recent U.S. Supreme Court cases involving questions about state funding of religion, federal judge Evelyn Padin reached a conclusion that should concern anyone who believes in religious freedom for all. “The ‘play in the joints’” historically afforded to states between the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause “seems to be over,” she writes.