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| | Online NewsHour: Supreme Court Watch -- June 19, 2000 |
 | | MARGARET WARNER: So in other words, they had expressed their concern about this election process, which, as you say, in the very campaign for who they will vote for and whether to have it would inject religion as a topic of a school election. |
 | | MARGARET WARNER: Now, the other point you made and the Justices made was that, in fact, this was coercive of students who might not share the sort of prevailing Christian faith of the community. |
 | | So he thought the court was really just acting much too quickly, and the opinion is a very pointed dissent, and I think it reflects some of the strong divisive debates that we've seen in state legislatures, in Congress, between parents, as we saw in the setup piece on this incredibly volatile issue. |
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