The Supreme Court may be about to fumble a major case involving a former high school football coach who sought to impose prayer on his players. The court has taken up the case of former high ...

Bremerton officials said Kennedy put himself at the center of attention with the midfield prayers. Kennedy said the prayers were private and that he never asked players to take part. The Supreme ...

The case involved a high school football coach praying post-game at the 50-yard line, joined by his players. A coach's post-game prayers at the 50 yard-line on Bremerton High School's football ...

His case before the Supreme Court was decided in a 6-3 vote along conservative-liberal ideological lines. The coach began his prayer ritual soon after he was hired in 2008, but the school district ...

Joseph Kennedy, a former high school football coach in Bremerton, Wash., had a constitutional right to pray on the field after his team’s games, the justices ruled. By Adam Liptak WASHINGTON ...

By contrast, Gorsuch wrote, the school district’s only real justification for its decision to fire Kennedy was that allowing the prayers to continue would have violated the establishment clause. But ...

One issue in the case was whether the coach’s decision ... court "consistently has recognized that school officials leading prayer is constitutionally impermissible" and said the ruling did ...