The hosts of the “We Dissent” podcast discuss on the latest episode another difficult Supreme Court case — and the potential consequences of the decision.

On Episode 49, FFRF Deputy Legal Director Liz Cavell and Americans United Legal Director Rebecca Markert take a look at Landor v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court case that will decide whether a Rastafarian inmate who had grown his dreadlocks for 20 years can sue the Louisiana prison officials who handcuffed him to a chair, held him down, and forcibly shaved him in violation of the law. They dive deep on the statute at issue in the case, the legal history leading up to this litigation, and what the oral arguments signaled. Finally, the episode will also take a quick look at the Supreme Court docket. 

“We Dissent,” which first aired in May 2022, is a legal affairs show for atheists, agnostics and humanists, offering legal wisdom from the secular viewpoint of women lawyers. The show is a collaboration of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and Americans United.

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