schneider live at the supreme court with this breaking news coming in. jessica, tell us more about this latest ruling on religious liberty. reporter: this is another decision from this court that has the effect here of eroding the barrier between church and state. the court in a 6-3 decision saying a school s concerns about coercion of students and its desires to keep its public school free from these outward displays of religion, the court saying that s outweighed by a coach s free speech rights. the court said they really viewed the coach s speech on the 50-yard line where he played as personal and private speech and they likened it to a phone call on school grounds or checking email. but the dissent here, interestingly, included a picture of just how much of a public spectacle this had become with the coach being crowded by the students as he prayed. the coach had been litigating this for years. he lost repeatedly in the lower courts. coach kennedy just released a statem
Government is actively dealing with. secretary of state antony blinken says over the weekend that he has no higher priority than to bring her and other american detainees home. of course one piece of hope was the release in april of trevor reed, another american being held in moscow. but the news today doesn t bode particularly well for brittney griner. she will now face trial starting friday, kate, in a moscow courtroom. thank you very much for that update. joining me for more, sports columnist for usa today. we have a trial date set to start this friday. you have been speaking to sources about this nightmare for her. what do you think this could mean? this is part of the process, kate, unfortunately. so sad in all ways and certainly not what we expect as americans. yet here she is and here we are. my understanding from talking to sources is that conversations are going on behind the scenes,