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The Supreme Court’s campaign to expand religious liberty now has a glaring exception

Damon Landor, before his head was shaved by Louisiana prison officials. | Supreme Court of the United States A Louisiana prison committed one of the most obvious violations of a man’s religious liberty that has ever made its way to the Supreme Court. Damon Landor is a Rastafari who, for religious reasons, does not cut his hair — according to his lawyers, he kept this vow for more than two decades, until his dreadlocks grew nearly long enough to reach his knees. But then, in 2020, while he was serving a five-month sentence for a drug-related offense, prison officials handcuffed him to...