Hello, Dahlia Lithwick here again.

We are in the final week of the Supreme Court's 2021 term, and while many are still reeling from Friday's decision, overturning Roe v. Wade, the court turned around Monday and issued another eye-popping decision in a religious liberty case.

It was Kennedy v. Bremerton School District.

It's a case Mark Joseph Stern actually flagged as likely to be one of the most consequential,

in a term, packed with consequential cases.

Slate Plus members have access to a special bonus edition of amicus where

Mark and I explain why a case involving a high school football coach who insisted on leading

students in prayer at the 50-yard line matters so very much. Here's a little snippet of our

conversation. I just want to read this to you because I don't know why I'm at that place where improbable things make me laugh cry.

And here's Justice Gorsuch that says, this is my, and then weirdly the teller handed me money.

Mr. Kennedy was alone when he began to pray. Players from the other team and

members of the community joined him before he even finished his prayer. This event spurred media coverage

of Mr. Kennedy's dilemma. It's like, I don't know what happened. He just was on his knee at the 50-yard

line praying because he kept telling

television networks that that's what he had to do in order to serve God. And weirdly, people prayed

with him, including students who felt coerced into praying. And then, weirdly, there was more

media coverage. I don't understand why the teller handed over the money.

It makes no sense.

Okay, okay.

Enough with the sarcasm.

Mark, this actually has very, very significant consequences.

We're being flipped because we're a little hysterical.

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