{"id":164599,"date":"2026-10-08T12:58:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=164599"},"modified":"2026-10-08T12:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:58:28","slug":"a-free-exercise-precedent-appears-to-be-in-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/08\/a-free-exercise-precedent-appears-to-be-in-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Free Exercise Precedent Appears To Be in Jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2004 that states may deny tuition assistance to college students planning to major in theology or other religious-based discipline. Now, 22 years later, the high court will consider whether to review\u2014and potentially overturn\u2014its decision in Locke v. Davey.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2004 that states may deny tuition assistance to college students planning to major in theology or other religious-based discipline. Now, 22 years later, the high court will consider whether to review\u2014and potentially overturn\u2014its decision in Locke v. Davey.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2004 that states may deny tuition assistance to college students planning to major in theology or other religious-based discipline. Now, 22 years later, the high court will consider whether to review\u2014and potentially overturn\u2014its decision in Locke v. Davey. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2004 that states may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164604,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164599\/revisions\/164604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}