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Cite as:  582 U. S. ____ (2017) 

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SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting 

from religious coffers as one measure to secure the kind of
freedom  of  conscience  that  benefits  both  religion  and 
government.  If this separation means anything, it means
that the government cannot, or at the very least need not, 
tax  its  citizens  and  turn  that  money  over  to  houses  of 
worship.  The Court today blinds itself to the outcome this 
history  requires  and  leads  us  instead  to  a  place  where 
separation  of  church  and  state  is  a  constitutional  slogan, 
not a constitutional commitment.  I dissent.