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Written by Don Byrd
The government shutdown didn’t stop the U.S. Supreme Court from opening its term yesterday. Among the cases the Court will hear include a challenge to a city council’s practice of opening official meetings with prayer. NPR’s Nina Totenberg looked at the new court session including the prayer case in a piece yesterday. You can listen to it here.

There are lots of other helpful primers on the case.

The Center for American Progress explains “why we should pay attention” to this case.

SCOTUSblog has a page devoted to the case here.

The BJC’s Nan Futrell gives some background on the case and the BJC’s position here.

More on this case to come as November’s oral argument gets close!