New Rockford Transcript - Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883

The U.S. Supreme Court’s first major ruling on the meaning of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause was in Everson v. Board of Education, in 1947, when it upheld a state law that provided busing of students to parochial schools. The court’s entry into this constitutional maze foreshadowed the controversy that surrounds - to this day - governmental acts and programs that promote relig...