The ongo­ing con­tro­versy over a Latin cross erected in 1934 on Fed­eral land in Mojave National Pre­serve to honor WWI dead reached the Supreme Court today on the ques­tion of whether Con­gress’ sale of the land where the cross sits to a pri­vate entity in an effort to remove the con­sti­tu­tional vio­la­tion itself vio­lated the injunc­tion order­ing the gov­ern­ment to remove the con­sti­tu­tional vio­la­tion. Photo by Eric Nys­trom, cour­tesy National Park Ser­vice The case is Salazar v. Buono, and oral argu­ments were held this morn­ing. Tran­script is here. The con­sti­tu­tion­al­ity of the cross was not before the Court today. The ques­tion was [ . . . ]

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