By BJC General Counsel Holly Hollman for TIME magazine
MSNBC’s AYMAN show
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi interviewed BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler on June 1, 2024, for a segment on the AYMAN show about Christian nationalism in Texas and across the country.
That funding would not only violate the Oklahoma constitution’s prohibition on “using public money for the ‘use, benefit or support of a sect or system of religion,’" it would also run afoul of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.
The conversation with Lauren Windsor, posing as a conservative Christian during an annual gathering of the Supreme Court Historical Society, seems to reveal a troubling perspective from Justice Alito.