Justice Scalia Thinks a Cross Is a Secular Symbol
Susan Jacoby in The Washington Post points out a largely overlooked exchange with Justice Antonin Scalia in that cross case heard by Supreme Court earlier this
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Susan Jacoby in The Washington Postpoints out a largely overlooked exchange with Justice Antonin Scalia in that cross case heard by Supreme Courtearlier this month. The case revolved around whether the government can keep a war memorial consisting of a solitary cross on public parkland. But while American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Peter Eliasberg made the argument that a statue of a soldier, for example, might be a better memorial to those who died in World War I, Scalia appeared shocked that the Jewish lawyer didn’t understand that the cross represents allthe dead soldiers. “
How did this man ever get a reputation as an intellectually respectable conservative judge?”
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