Damon Landor spent nearly 20 years growing his dreadlocks as part of his Rastafarian faith. While serving a five-month prison sentence in Louisiana in 2020, guards held him down, threw his legal documentation in the trash, and shaved his head. The Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled that the specific wording of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act did not allow Landor to sue the individual guards personally for violating his religious beliefs, drawing a narrow distinction from a related federal law that does allow such suits. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented alongside the court's two other liberal justices and did not mince words. "It is not often that a real-life incident so clearly illustrates Congress's reasons for adopting legislation, or the Constitution's wisdom in enabling it," she wrote. His faith was violated. His hair was taken. And no one will be held personally accountable. For Black people who wear locs as a cultural and spiritual ex...