The Supreme Court seemed generally sympathetic to a high school football coach who claims he was fired for kneeling to pray at the 50-yard line after football games.
Coach Joseph A. “Joe” Kennedy, who no longer works for the taxpayer-funded Bremerton School District in Washington state, asserts that his rights were violated when the school district forbade him from praying in view of the public after games. Some of the facts, such as whether his prayers were silent and how he came not to be employed by the district, are in dispute.
The case is Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, court file 21-418, an appeal from the frequently overturned U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. One hour was scheduled for the April 25 hearing but it ran over by 48 minutes.
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