Oklahoma will not be able to use government money to fund a Catholic charter school, the Supreme Court ruled after Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself from the case. In Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett took no part in a split decision that denied public funding for the nation's first religious charter school.

The Christian Right couldn’t wait to have her on the Supreme Court. But she’s not fighting its battle in Oklahoma.

In a 4-to-4 decision, the court upheld a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that blocked the school. An evenly divided Supreme Court rejected a plan on Thursday to allow Oklahoma to use government money to run the nation’s first religious charter school, which would teach a curriculum infused by Catholic doctrine.