Soon enough, players began joining him in prayer (though Kennedy insisted he had not required or encouraged them to do so), and Kennedy began (at least sometimes) including motivational speeches that blended with his own prayer. He also began kneeling by himself at the 50-yard line to pray immediately after shaking hands with the opposing team. As a new coach, he initially continued a “school tradition” of facilitating pregame or postgame prayers in the locker room. Joseph Kennedy was hired by Bremerton School District as an assistant high-school football coach in 2008. Though this case has been in the news for years (the Court denied cert once before when it came up on a preliminary injunction), there’s still remarkable disagreement among commentators-and the Justices themselves-about the facts (or at least the facts that matter). Kurtzman (1971)-the oft-derided bogeyman of Establishment Clause jurisprudence-is overruled.
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Let’s start with Kennedy, a significant First Amendment decision that continues the Court’s trend (discussed as recently as last week) of elevating the Free Speech and Free Exercises clauses over the Establishment Clause, while pausing to finally announce that Lemon v. 20-1650), holding that the First Step Act allows district judges to consider intervening changes of law or fact in exercising their discretion to reduce a sentence. 21-418), holding that the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment protected a public high school football coach from being disciplined for kneeling in prayer after games and Concepcion v. While we digest this morning’s decisions, read on for our regurgitations of two of Monday’s: Kennedy v. That leaves two more for tomorrow, which the Court has announced will be the final opinion day of the term.
20-603), holding that states cannot invoke sovereign immunity against lawsuits under a federal law permitting veterans to sue to reclaim the state jobs they left when deployed. 21-429), holding that the federal and state governments have concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed by non-Indians in Indian country and On the penultimateday of OT21, the Court handed down two more decisions:
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