WASHINGTON – The United States Solicitor General’s Office, 12 states, charter school groups, religious organizations, and elected leaders submitted friend-of-the-court briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of religious liberty and educational freedom. In Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys are defending the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board’s decision to approve St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School’s application to participate in the state’s charter-school program. The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the board could not allow St. Isidore to participate in the program because the school is religious.

ADF Legal Counsel Logan Spena:  “The U.S. government should defend our First Amendment right to free speech. Federal officials should champion those rights, not threaten them, and not look for ways to get around them by inducing private groups to do their censoring for them. Officials under the previous administration have tried to do that….”

ADF Legal Counsel Sara Beth Nolan:  “States have a duty to protect the privacy, safety, and dignity of women and girls. Letting men intrude into girls’ spaces where they are most vulnerable—whether in a changing space, sleeping quarters, or the restroom—is an invasion of privacy, a threat to their safety, and a denial of the real biological differences between the two sexes….”