Sentences with phrase «taxpayers challenging the program»

Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy said taxpayers challenging the program lacked «standing» to continue the suit.

Several Arizona taxpayers challenged the program, arguing that it impermissibly puts the government in the business of funding religious education.

Not exact matches

They suggested three ways in which RFRA might conceivably be interpreted (misinterpreted, really) to create bad consequences: (1) to give a church's opponents legal «standing» (a technical term meaning the right to sue) to challenge the church's tax - exempt status; (2) to allow taxpayers to claim their free exercise rights would be violated if a religiously affiliated organization receives government assistance under a secular program; and, most importantly, (3) to allow pro-abortion plaintiffs to claim a free exercise right to abortion if Roe v. Wade is overruled and states enact anti-abortion laws.

«The fact that (those challenging the program) are state taxpayers does not give them standing to challenge the subsidies that (the program) provides to religious STOs.»

AMHERST, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo maintains his START - UP NY program is creating thousands of jobs at no cost to taxpayers, even as legislators in Albany are challenging the premise.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo maintains his START - UP NY program is creating thousands of jobs at no cost to taxpayers, even as legislators in Albany are challenging the premise.

CSEA also pointed out the Empire Center's hypocrisy in challenging public employee health care coverage at a time when many irresponsible businesses benefit at taxpayer expense under programs like Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus.

Al Coppola and Charles Swanick stated that the program would be an unfair challenge to legal residents and an unnecessary burden on taxpayers.

«I find it deeply troubling that while our country is facing fiscal challenges of gigantic proportions... that programs such as this are being funded on the back of the American taxpayer,» he said in offering his amendment on 29 May.

A group of state taxpayers has challenged the programs, enacted by the state legislature in 1984 and 1985, as violating the clauses in the New York State and United States constitutions that bar government establishment of religion.

Following passage of a school voucher program in Indiana back in 2011, taxpayers represented by the National Education Association challenged that law all the way to the Indiana Supreme Court.

A second suit brought by a coalition of taxpayer groups also challenged the program, claiming that the Nevada Constitution requires the legislature to set apart money to be used to fund the operation of public schools «to the exclusion of all other purposes.»

Attorney Burton Craige, who represents plaintiffs challenging the voucher program, told N.C. Policy Watch last week that releasing taxpayer funds prior to the court ruling is troubling.

Today, POLITICO cited a release from the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee Democrats that claimed Florida's Tax Credit Scholarship Program «has faced many problems, including constitutional challenges in the courts, vast opposition by parents and civil rights organizations, fraud and corruption» and was a «waste of taxpayer funds.»

The North Carolina Association of Educators and the North Carolina School Boards Association have challenged the school voucher program in court, alleging that the program is an unconstitutional use of taxpayer funds that should be used for public schools only.

A Tallahassee judge dismissed their case last year, after finding the groups could not show the program harmed public schools and did not have standing as taxpayers to challenge its constitutionality.

The United States» federal coal leasing program has come under increased scrutiny in recent years, as communities impacted by coal mining and export proposals, taxpayer advocates, and environmental groups have questioned the ability of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to ensure a fair return to US taxpayers and adjust to newer challenges such as climate change and coal export proposals.