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Brief of the Week: Defending a town's use of prayer at legislative meetings

The National Law Journal

February 6, 2013

In Marsh v. Chambers, the Supreme Court upheld the practice of starting legislative meetings with prayer due to the ritual's deep-seated history, which dates back to the First Congress. A petition for certiorari in Town of Greece v. Galloway warns that a legal battle in upstate New York is threatening that tradition.

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