Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer looked skyward Wednesday as he tried to come up with a "more amazing" hypothetical during arguments in a key church-state case. With or without divine intervention, he found one: Could the federal government fund churches and ministers of a single religion "dedicated to the proposition that this particular sect is the true sect," without fear of taxpayer lawsuits against it? "Horrible hypothetical," growled Solicitor General Paul Clement, but he went on to say yes.
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