WWJD? Hard Time, Apparently

Today, among many other big rulings, the Supreme Court held 5-4 that taxpayers lack the standing to challenge some of Duhbya's faith-based initiative programs. In short, the Court declined to extend the one exception to the general doctrine that taxpayers lack standing to challenge governmental uses of their tax moneys beyond programs specifically authorized by Congress. The organizational/prayer meetings at issue in the case were funded out of a generalized executive branch (Dick Cheney need not apply) slush fund.

What that means is that it's unlikely that, on the federal level at least, anything will change before 2009. Once a new President is in office, will s/he be inclined to continue these faith-based initiatives? What about faith-based prison programs that, at least initially, appear to be working? Lots of people go to prison, find Jesus/Allah/L. Ron Hubbard and turn their lives around because of it. Should the state give them a push? I don't think so, but I'm a hard liner on those kinds of things. A new President, with more pressing problems to address, might not care to rock the boat.