By: Jeremy Dys, First Liberty Institute’s Deputy General Counsel. They came from many walks of life, the 49 boys of Prince George’s County, Maryland. Several were laborers like George Washington Farmer and William Lee–one white, the other African-American. One, Ernest Pendleton Magruder, was a well-known surgeon. Another, Henry Lewis Hulbert, […]
Left to right, Medal of Honor Marine recipient Captain Henry Lewis Hulbert and African-American soldier, Private John Henry Seaburn, Jr. are among the 49 names listed on the listed on the Bladensburg Memorial. Image courtesy: First Liberty Institute By: Steve Warren The US Supreme Court announced Monday that it will […]
By: Kelly Shackelford, First Liberty Institute President and CEO. Although the Supreme Court’s recent Masterpiece Cakeshop decision reinforced the principle that government must not be hostile towards religion, it left many American business owners with more questions than answers, especially about cases where art, expression, and speech intersect with daily […]
The Memorial Peace Cross in Bladensburg, Maryland. By: Greg Stohr The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider giving government officials more leeway to maintain religious symbols on public property, accepting a case over a 40-foot cross in the middle of a busy intersection outside Washington. The justices will review a federal appeals […]
In a dispute involving assertions of government endorsement of religion, defenders of the Peace Cross, which stands in Bladensburg, Md., had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Washington Post) By: David G. Savage The Supreme Court announced Friday it will hear its first […]
By: Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday waded into a new fight over the separation of church and state, agreeing to decide whether a towering cross-shaped war memorial erected in 1925 on public land in Maryland violates the Constitution’s ban on government endorsement of religion. […]
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