Featuring Professor John Greabe and Rebecca Purdom

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced a decision significantly expanding the place of religion in public life. In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the Court ruled that a high school football coach has a constitutional right to pray on the 50-yard line after his team’s games and invite his players to join. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the 6-3 majority that the prayers were protected by the First Amendment. The decision comes just days after the Court also ruled that Maine could not exclude religious schools from the state’s public tuition program. 

Rudman Center Director and Constitutional Law Scholar Professor John Greabe and Sports & Entertainment Law Director and Professor Michael McCann will explain the the decision, and its implications for both constitutional law scholars and public school sports.