The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the city of Boston violated a group’s First Amendment rights by denying its request to fly a Christian flag at City Hall.
The U.S. high court delivered its opinion on Monday, overturning a lower court decision in favor of the city. The Supreme Court found that, contrary to arguments made by city attorneys, the city’s flag-waving program constituted an expression of private speech, not government speech, and therefore could not limit participants based on Establishment Clause concerns.