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CNBC reports:
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a 40-foot cross commemorating World War I can continue to stand on public ground because it does not violate the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. The case concerned a giant, early 20th century Latin cross that stands in a Maryland intersection in the suburbs of the nation’s capital.
The project was conceived as a memorial by mothers of men killed in World War I, and is now maintained by a municipal agency that has spent just over $100,000 on the monument since the 1980s. That expenditure has raised questions about whether the cross violates the legal prohibition against excessive entanglement between religion and government.
#SCOTUS rules for cross-shaped war memorial on public land in Maryland https://t.co/cYtIPADO6A pic.twitter.com/xukfHoFffM
— Reuters Legal (@ReutersLegal) June 20, 2019
Justice Alito has the opinion for a 7-2 #SCOTUS in No 17-1717 American Legion v American Humanist Ass’n. CA4 is reversed, remanded
— Kimberly Robinson (@KimberlyRobinsn) June 20, 2019
In Maryland peace cross case #SCOTUS says Bladensburg Cross does not violate the Establishment Clause. “The fact that the cross is undoubtedly a Christian symbol should not blind one to everything else [it] has come to represent.”
— Kimberly Robinson (@KimberlyRobinsn) June 20, 2019
BREAKING: We have a decision in the 40-foot tall Bladensburg cross case. #SCOTUS will allow the monument to stand. Full analysis coming. https://t.co/Z5jZ7wLVW9 #HonorThemAll
— American Atheists (@AmericanAtheist) June 20, 2019
SCOTUS rules that the Bladensburg Cross does not violate the Establishment Clause in a very scrambled opinion.
The controlling opinion, though, is narrow, holding that the cross is sufficiently symbolic of WWI veterans to pass constitutional muster. https://t.co/Y2G1oiUUSI pic.twitter.com/hCVAzVKsqx
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 20, 2019
SCOTUS goes 7-2 to let the big highway cross stand, but the majority is fractured on why. Ginsburg and Sotomayor dissent: https://t.co/c9ah9iXAvp
— Mike Sacks (@MikeSacksEsq) June 20, 2019