Trump Administration and Denver Archdiocese Urge Supreme Court to Overturn Colorado Preschool Ruling

The Trump administration joined the Archdiocese of Denver on Tuesday in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that allows Colorado's state-funded preschool program to exclude Roman Catholic schools that do not comply with its equal-opportunity requirements. The justices heard the challenge in Washington. Justice Brett Kavanaugh pressed the state's side, noting that under the program a vegetarian school could take part but a Catholic or a Jewish school could not, and asking how Colorado responds to those concerns. The program is billed as universal preschool, and the ruling under challenge let the state keep out schools that decline to follow the equal-opportunity rules.

The left-leaning outlet in this set, The New York Times, did not cover the Colorado case. Its article is an explainer on a different matter: the UK Supreme Court hearing a challenge on Wednesday to the government's designation of Palestine Action as a terrorist organization last year, a decision that drew criticism. The right-leaning Federalist covered the Colorado case and led with Kavanaugh's vegetarian-versus-Catholic question. Its headline casts the state as shutting Christians out of a universal program and the justices as grilling it. AP, listed among alternative sources, reports the same hearing in procedural terms, leading with the administration joining the archdiocese and the equal-opportunity requirements at issue, and it does not feature the Kavanaugh exchange in its excerpt. Reason, also independent, covered something else entirely: commentary on Democratic wins in House and Senate races. The sides therefore agree on little here beyond the Federalist and AP both covering the Colorado hearing, differing in the details and framing they emphasize.