Scalia on the Meaning of the Latin Cross
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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