The most horrifying religion case to hit the Supreme Court in years is also one of the hardest

Damon Landor suffered one of the most blatant and obvious violations of his religious liberty imaginable.

Landor is Rastafarian and, as part of his religious devotion, does not cut his hair. According to his lawyers, he kept this vow for more than two decades, and his hair grew long enough to fall “nearly to his knees.” Then, while he was serving a five-month prison sentence for a drug-related crime in 2020, prison officials handcuffed him to a chair, held him down, and shaved his head.

The most remarkable thing about Landor’s case is, when Landor was transferred to the prison facility where he was shaved, he brought with him a copy of a federal appeals court’s decision in Ware v. Louisiana Department of Corrections (2017), which held that Louisiana’s policy of cutting the hair of Rastaf