The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear a case to determine whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school can open in Oklahoma, setting the stage for a major religious liberty ruling later this term.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma.

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether the state of Oklahoma may fund a proposed religious charter school, the first of its kind in the country

The Supreme Court will weigh the fate of an Oklahoma religious charter school that has blurred the lines between church and state, justices announced Friday in an unsigned order distributed days after President Donald Trump was sworn into office.

Conservatives hope the case would continue a streak of rulings in recent years permitting taxpayer funds to be used for religious purposes.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a bid led by two Catholic dioceses to establish in Oklahoma the nation's first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in a case testing the separation of church and state.