You shouldn’t need a permit to pray in your own home — the Supreme Court should agree

A zoning technicality is being used to lock Americans out of court when the government chills their First Amendment rights . The Supreme Court should put a stop to it. When the government threatens you for exercising a constitutional right, can it force you to run a bureaucratic gauntlet before a federal court will even hear your case? On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court agreed to answer that question in its next term in Grand v. City of University Heights. It should answer no. A prayer group an