Supreme Court Invalidates Special Public Schools District Created for Jewish Sect

"Authority over public schools belongs to the state, and cannot be delegated to a local school district defined by the State in order to grant political control to a religious group. "  Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet (1994)  (J. Souter, majority opinion).  "Justice Souter's position boils down to the quite novel proposition that any group of citizens (say, the residents of Kiryas Joel) can be invested with political power, but not if they all belong to the same religion. Of...