Kennedy v. Bremerton School District
5-4
Prologue Projects
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🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this case from the most recent term, the Court once again says we should look to history and tradition to determine what's appropriate. Which is gonna be a tough one to parse, because the founders didn't really give us a strong sense of how they felt about junior varsity football games at public high schools. Probably because none of those things had been invented yet.
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| 0:00.0 | We'll hear argument first this morning in case 21-418 Kennedy versus Bremerton School District. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey everyone, this is Leon from Fiasco and Prologue Projects. On this week's episode of 5-4, |
| 0:16.3 | the hosts are talking about Kennedy V Bremerton School District, the ruling which came down this |
| 0:21.7 | summer grants a school football coach the right to pray on the field after games. It also overturns |
| 0:28.3 | a long-held legal test that the courts have used to determine whether or not religious activity |
| 0:33.2 | is acceptable. The ruling follows the Robert's Court's pattern of holding up religious rights, |
| 0:38.4 | and it goes against years of precedent where the court has held that students could not be pressured |
| 0:43.2 | to participate in religious activities. Today's case is won in a series from this term, |
| 0:48.4 | in which modern precedent has been overturned and replaced with the vague notion that history and |
| 0:53.2 | tradition should guide decisions going forward. This is 5-4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court |
| 1:00.0 | sucks. Welcome to 5-4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have devoured |
| 1:11.2 | our civil rights like my cat devouring the salmon I made when I'm not looking. Peter. Did she do that? |
| 1:17.4 | Yeah, you know, she's... Didn't she do it with a chicken? She once took the carcass of an |
| 1:24.0 | entire Cornish game hen, as I believe what you were calling it, and dragged it under the bed, and |
| 1:29.2 | consumed it, going and all. It was gone. She's bougie. She's not quite a bar cat, but |
| 1:37.2 | but close. But look, tomorrow is her seventh birthday. Oh, I love her very much, and she |
| 1:44.8 | haunts my waking life. So happy birthday. I'm here with Michael. Hey everybody. |
| 1:51.1 | And Rianan. Hi, hello. And we're doing a case, right? Yeah. It turns out we are doing a case. |
| 1:58.6 | And today's case is Kennedy V. Bremerton School District. This is a case from this past term, |
| 2:05.5 | and in fact, just a few weeks ago about school prayer. Specifically, it is about a high school |
| 2:13.4 | football coach who engaged in public prayer after football games was asked to stop by his school, |
| 2:21.2 | refused and was put on paid leave. He then sued, claiming that his first amendment right to |
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