S. 146795th CongressSenate Bill

Removes the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Federal district courts over any case arising out of any State…

Official title: 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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Removes the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Federal district courts over any case arising out of any State statute, ordinance, rule or regulation, which relates to voluntary prayers or religious expression in public schools and public buildings.

Introduced May 5, 1977
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Passed House
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Who introduced this

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William Roth Jr.

Republican

U.S. Senator · DE

1 cosponsor — all Republican

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