Football Coach’s On-Field Prayer Won’t Get High Court Review (1)

A former Washington state high school football coach who lost his job for praying on the field after games won’t get to make his case at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Conservative Justice Samuel A. Alito, who concurred with the court’s decision to deny review of Joe Kennedy’s petition, said in a statement that important “unresolved factual questions would make it very difficult if not impossible at this stage to decide the free speech question” at issue.

Fellow conservatives Clarence Thomas, Neil M. Gorsuch, and Brett M. Kavanaugh agreed with Alito’s suggestion that the high court may at some point need ...