Posted on 06/20/2019 7:05:32 AM PDT by SMGFan
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Pray for John Roberts
It's too late now, his decision was made months ago.
Any retirement announcements rumored?
Pray for John Roberts
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It’s too late now, his decision was made months ago.
It’s NEVER too late to pray.
Joining in prayer, montag.
Lets see what rights we have after today. Its madness these 9 people have so much influence - even crazier these federal judges can issue national injunctions. I think this rule by judicial fiat sucks donkey
This is the case of a cross erected in what is now a traffic circle to commemorate fallen soldiers in World War I. The Fourth Circuit agreed with a group of local residents and the American Humanist Association that the memorial is unconstitutional, but today the Court reversed, so the cross can stay.
Justice Alito looks to history, appearing to draw an analytical line between maintenance of long-established monuments with potential religious significance and erection of new ones.
Ginsburg and Sotomayor are the only full dissenters in the case.
Here’s the link to the opinion in American Legion v. American Humanist Association. Amy Howe will have our analysis:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/17-1717_4f14.pdf
The upshot is that the Fourth Circuit is reversed and remanded.
Court says that cross “has become a prominent community landmark, and its removal or radical alteration at this date would be seen by many not as a neutral act but as the manifestation of a hostility toward religion that has no place in our Establishment Clause traditions. And contrary to respondents’ intimations, there is no evidence of discriminatory intent in the selection of the design of the memorial or the decision of a Maryland commission to maintain it. The Religion Clause of the Constitution aim to foster a society in which people of all beliefs can live together harmoniously, and the presence of the Bladensburg Cross on the land where it has stood for so many years is fully consistent with that aim.”
by Amy Howe 10:16 AM
wait until final court session
Justice Ginsburg is reading from her dissent now. For those of you who are not regulars here, reading a dissent from the bench is a statement, in and of itself.
by Amy Howe 10:21 AM
Well have a Ruthie sighting.
She can read as much as she likes for as long as she likes as long as it’s a dissent ie she lost. Again.
Breyer broke away from Ginsburg and concurred with Alito? Has this ever happened before? I thought they voted together 100 percent of the time.
Not to worry. Dems will raise the number to 15 or more.
7-2 decision to let the cross stand.
:)!
It would be incredible if Alito, Thomas, Breyer, RBG, Roberts, and Sotomayor all hang it up. Every one over 60 should retire!!!!
Twitter full of hand-wringing over church-state separation as if we’re going to form the Church of America tomorrow.
Who joined Ginsburg in the “no” vote?
Broad ruling! Thank you LORD!
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