Will SCOTUS Uphold Religious Liberty in Death Penalty Case?

Dunn v. Ray (2019) is the kind of Supreme Court decision that a comic book supervillain might write. Widely denounced, even by prominent conservatives, when it was handed down, Ray held that a Muslim inmate in Alabama could be executed without his imam present — even though the state permitted Christian inmates to have a spiritual adviser present during their execution. As Justice Elena Kagan wrote in dissent, one of the Constitution's "clearest command[s]" is that "one religious denomination cannot be officially preferred over another." But that's exactly what the Court permitted in Ray.