Football Prayer Case May Signal High Court Shift

Four U.S. Supreme Court justices, in a show of the strengthened conservative majority, signaled interest in overturning a seminal ruling on freedom of religion in their statement about a case involving a high school football coach who lost his job for praying on the field.

Although the justices said Jan. 22 that Joe Kennedy’s claim against a Washington state public school district wasn’t suitable for Supreme Court review, Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch indicated in an eye-opening statement that the time may be right to hear a case like it.

The additions to the high ...