A group has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision that declared unconstitutional a Maryland veteran's monument fashioned as a 40-foot-tall cross.
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Former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal K. Katyal will press the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission’s Supreme Court appeal in the 'Bladensburg Cross' case.
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If the case gets appealed to the Supreme Court as expected, Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh will urge the justices to affirm the constitutionality of a 40-foot-tall cross erected as a war memorial on state-owned land in Bladensburg.
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The American Legion will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a lower court’s ruling that a 40-foot-tall cross erected as a war memorial on state-owned land in Bladensburg violates the constitutional separation of church and state, though it is used ...
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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh has infuriated Gov. Larry Hogan by declining, for the moment, to join a legal fight against a ruling that a prominent cross-shaped war monument on public violates the U.S. Constitution. Frosh, a ...
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A 40-foot tall cross erected as a war memorial on state-owned land in Bladensburg complies with the constitutional separation of church and state because the edifice merely has an “incidental religious feature” maintained for the secular purpose of honoring local ...
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ANNAPOLIS — A week after a three-judge panel declared a 40-foot (12-meter) cross memorializing veterans unconstitutional, Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday directed Maryland’s attorney general to support a legal challenge against the ruling. Hogan told Attorney General Brian Frosh to ...
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