Here are many of the items covering the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Trinity Lutheran holding that Missouri could not exclude the church from its playground-grant program.

SCOTUSblog

• Opinion analysis: Church prevails in funding dispute

• A “view” from the courtroom: A day for drama on the bench

• Afternoon round-up: Today’s orders and opinions

• Symposium: The justices reach broad agreement, but on a narrow question

• Symposium: The Constitution provides a level playing field for people of faith

• Symposium: The crumbling wall separating church and state

• Symposium: Playground resurfacing case provides soft landing for state “no aid” provisions

• Symposium: Trinity Lutheran and Zelman – Saved by footnote 3 or a dream come true for voucher advocates?

• Symposium: Court ruling bolsters religious liberty… beyond the playground

• Symposium: Bad news from Trinity Lutheran – Only two justices support the establishment clause

• Symposium: Putting some limits on the “play in the joints”

• Symposium: Playground resurfacing case provides soft landing for state “no aid” provisions

Academic analysis

Ira C. Lupu & Robert W. Tuttle, Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer: Paradigm Lost?, (Forthcoming, American Constitution Society for Law & Policy Supreme Court Review, October Term 2016)

News coverage and analysis

The New York Times: States Must Aid Some Church Programs, Justices Rule

USA Today: Supreme Court declares churches eligible for some public funds

The Washington Post: Supreme Court sides with religious institutions in a major church-state decision

Reuters: U.S. top court backs church in major religious rights case

Politico:  States must support some church programs, high court rules

Fox News: Supreme Court rules for Missouri church in dispute over public funding access

Bloomberg: Church Rights Strengthened by Supreme Court Playground Case

ABA Journal: Supreme Court rules for church that wanted state grant to resurface playground

ReligiousLiberty.TV: Supreme Court: State must include church in public funding scheme

The Hill: Supreme Court rules churches are eligible for some public funds

NBC News: Supreme Court Rules States Cannot Refuse All Financial Aid to Churches

CNN: Supreme Court rules for church preschool in religious liberty case

NPR: Supreme Court Rules Religious School Can Use Taxpayer Funds For Playground

ReligionsLiberty.TV

• Supreme Court: State must include church in public funding scheme

• States prohibiting all non-public school funding may escape Trinity Lutheran impact

Religion Clause: Supreme Court Holds Denial of Playground Resurfacing Grant To Church Violates Free Exercise Clause 

ManagingYourChurch: Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Christian Schools

ECFA: Missouri Church Scores Major Supreme Court Victory

Indiana Lawyer

• Supreme Court rules for Missouri church in playground case
• Supreme Court last day notable for what was and wasn’t said

Commentary favoring the majority

Library of Law and Liberty

• “Why Trinity Lutheran is the Most Important Case of the 2016 Term” by John O McGinnis

• Blaine’s Descendants Disinherited

• Trinity Lutheran Church and Unconstitutional Conditions

Above the Law: Minority Of Court Would Rather Not Make A Federal Case Out Of Trinity Lutheran, A Federal Case

Law and Religion Forum: “Blaine Amendment” Case Decided, Without Reference to Blaine Amendments or Animus Inquiry

Cato Institute: Trinity Lutheran Ruling Only Gets Us Closer to Equality in Education

LifeNews: Supreme Court: Government Can’t Exclude Christian Groups From Programs Just Because They’re Christian

Volokh Conspiracy

• [Eugene Volokh] When may the government discriminate against religious institutions?

• [Randy Barnett] Does Trinity Lutheran mark the “end of originalism”

Wagenmaker & Oberly blog: Supreme Court Reproaches Missouri for Religious Discrimination and Protects Religious Liberty

Commentary criticizing the decision

The Atlantic

• The Supreme Court Strikes Down a Major Church-State Barrier
• A Major Church-State Ruling That Shouldn’t Have Happened: In Trinity v. Comer, there was no remaining dispute between the actual parties — and both the majority opinion and the leading dissent got the issue wrong.

Slate

• Did the court just seriously wound the separation of church and state?
• Goodbye, Establishment Clause: The Supreme Court’s ruling in Trinity Lutheran v. Comer threatens to obliterate the divide between church and state.

Vox: What a SCOTUS decision over a church playground means for religious freedom in America

Bloomberg View: Supreme Court Weakens Wall Between Church and State: Allowing a Missouri church to receive state money for playground resurfacing opens the door to other payments.

Philly.com: ‘Trinity’ case marks end of originalism.