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Salazar v. Buono

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In a 5 to 4 decision yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that a cross erected in the Mojave desert to honor World War I soldiers will stand, proving the Court has neither the will nor the ability to establish precedent on separation of church and state issues. This is the first of such cases to come up since Roberts was made chief justice.

Wrote Kennedy: “Here, one Latin cross in the desert evokes far more than religion. It evokes thousands of small crosses in foreign fields marking the graves of Americans who fell in battles, battles whose tragedies are compounded if the fallen are forgotten.” Continue Reading →