Ruling in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, on June 27, 2022, the majority opinion declared that “The Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment protect an individual engaging in a personal religious observance from government reprisal; the Constitution neither mandates nor permits the government to suppress such religious expression.”
The question presented was:
“[W]hether a public school must permit a school official to kneel, bow his head, and say a prayer at the center of a school event.”
The opinion
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Oral argument
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