FILE – In this May 7, 2014 file photo, the World War I memorial cross is pictured in Bladensburg, Md. The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a nearly 100-year-old, cross-shaped war memorial located on a Maryland highway median violates the Constitution’s required separation of church and state. The […]
By: Ariane de Vogue Washington (CNN) The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to take up a religious liberty case concerning a 93-year-old war memorial in Maryland that challengers say violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution because it stands on public ground and is in the shape of a cross. […]
By: Melissa Quinn The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up a legal dispute over the constitutionality of a 40-foot cross honoring those killed in World War I located on state-owned land in Maryland, the court announced Friday. The lawsuit centers around the memorial, a Latin cross atop a […]
The “Peace Cross,” the focus of an intense court case regarding its upkeep and placement on public land, stands at a busy intersection in Bladensburg, Md. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post) By: Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether a 40-foot cross in the median of […]
By: Kevin Daley The American Legion and a Maryland planning commission are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to protect a cross-shaped World War I memorial, after the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the monument violates the Constitution. Supporters of the petition say the 4th Circuit’s decision compromises war […]
World War II veteran John Pedevillano received a citation from Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan at the controversial Peace Cross in Bladensburg. Derrick Ward reports.
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