A bill to limit the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States and any such inferior court as ordained and established by the Congress of the United States to enter any judgment, decree or order denying or restricting as unconstitutional, the exercise of free religious expression or the saying of voluntary prayer in any public school or other public building.
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What it doesSummary introduced in senate (Mar 21, 1975)
Provides that the Supreme Court, notwithstanding specified provisions of law, shall not have jurisdiction to review, by appeal, writ, or certiorari, any case arising out of any State statute, or arising out of any Act interpreting, applying, or enforcing a State statute which concerns the exercise of free religious expression or the saying of voluntary prayers in public shcools or other public buildings.
States that the limitations applied under this Act to the Supreme Court also shall apply to U.S. district courts. (Adds 28 U.S.C. 1259, 1363)
What just happenedMar 21, 1975
Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
Who’s behind it
- Mar 21, 1975IntroReferral
Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
Judiciary Committee - Mar 21, 1975IntroReferral10000
Introduced in Senate