Showing posts with label SCOTUS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SCOTUS. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Mummies Redux and Another Sane Court Ruling

The Supreme Court just ruled in favor of Pleasant Grove, a city that had been sued by a fringe group that wanted it's founding rules placed next to the 10 Commandments in a park. This is very important and 9-0 ruling. I believed this is how the court would rule, but I never would've guessed that it would be unanimous. I like being pleasantly surprised. This is a great precedent: just because you have a right to say something doesn't mean that all of society must acknowledge your speech. This group can still go and worship in their pyramid with no hindrance from the government.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/washington/26scotus.html?hp

Check out what I said when this case was on the docket: http://arlingtonline.blogspot.com/2008/11/mummies-10-commandments-and-supreme.html

Monday, November 24, 2008

Mummies, The 10 Commandments and the Supreme Court

Just to bring this to everybody's attention. The Supreme Court has taken up a 1st Amendment Case. This should be a slam dunk: the founding law of the Judeo-Christian tradition versus a handful of kooks. But knowing the court, who knows how it will end up. Probably it will depend on how Kennedy is feeling that day. One can only guess how things will be after Obama starts putting people on the court.

By the way, this cult/religion is freaky. They "worship" in a copper pyramid to commune with aliens!

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTTkrm6CpJFGMARRfQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBjdmNoOTVjBHBvcwMyBHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=13hd5gvld/EXP=1227635302/**http%3a//www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/12/supremecourt-constitutionandcivilliberties-summum

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=6292080&page=1