SCOTUS Sides with Football Coach Fired for Praying on the Field

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "This highlights yet again the incredible contribution that President Trump made to our nation's highest court, which in the same week it upheld the Second Amendment and returned abortion to the states has now also upheld the original public meaning of both free speech and religious liberty in the First Amendment."
50% : This is a great victory for Coach Kennedy and the First Amendment," Clement said.
47% : Here, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a brief, quiet, personal religious observance doubly protected by the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment," Gorsuch wrote.
45% : The district also used the First Amendment to justify its argument, claiming that Kennedy's prayers in view of the public and students following a school sanctioned event violate the Establishment Clause because his actions could be perceived as a district endorsement of religion.
42% : Sotomayor argued that the majority decision is a "disservice" to the separation of church and state, and is "no victory for religious liberty."
40% : The Supreme Court on Monday sided 6-3 with a football coach who was fired for praying on the field after games, marking another win for religious liberty delivered by the conservative-leaning court.
40% : Kennedy asserted that the school district violated the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
31% : Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the majority opinion, ruling that the Bremerton School District violated the Free Exercise Clause and the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment by firing coach Joseph Kennedy for praying after games.

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