The Supreme Court is siding with a football coach from Washington state who sought to kneel and pray on the field after games.
for the coach with the court’s conservative justices in the majority and its liberals in dissent. The justices said the coach’s prayer was protected by the First Amendment.
The decision is the latest in a line of Supreme Court rulings for religious plaintiffs. In another recent example, the court ruled that from a program that offers tuition aid for private education, a decision that could ease religious organizations’ access to taxpayer money. That the court ruled for the coach is perhaps not surprising. In 2019, the court declined to take up the case at an early stage, but four of the court’s conservatives agreed that a lower court decision in favor of the school district was “troubling” for its “understanding of the free speech rights of public school teachers.”
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