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Supreme Court upholds right to pray at town meetings

Clip: 5/5/2014 | 6m 39s

Supreme Court upholds right to pray at town meetings

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that local governments have the right to open town meetings with prayer — even if the prayer is explicitly of one denomination. Gwen Ifill gets an overview of the case from Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal.

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