Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond, a Republican, is stepping into the national spotlight this week as a key figure in a landmark Supreme Court battle over religious liberty and public education.
But it’s not the kind of attention most Republicans would seek out in the deeply red state, which is also part of the colloquially named Bible Belt.
Drummond, a declared candidate for governor, is seeking to block the creation of the nation’s first taxpayer-funded Catholic charter school when justices hear oral arguments on April 30. The consolidated cases before the Supreme Court involve the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board and St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, with Drummond urging the justices to uphold a state Supreme Court decision that found the publicly funded school
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