Tag: Establishment Clause
The Legal Fight Over God’s Secular Title
Dahlia Lithwick November 19, 2009.
Print: Newsweek
David Hamilton, Barack Obama’s first judicial nominee, has seen his confirmation stalled until last week in the U.S. Senate, in part because his opponents claim he’s a judicial activist for an opinion he wrote about God’s proper secular title. In a 2005 case, Hinrichs v. Bosma, Hamilton determined that those who pray in the Indiana House of Representatives “should refrain from using Christ’s name or title or any other denominational appeal,” and that such prayer must hereinafter be “nonsectarian.”
Supreme Court to hear Mojave cross case
David G. Savage February 23, 2009.
Los Angeles Times
Justices will decide whether the monument can stand in a national preserve to honor fallen soldiers. It will be the Roberts court’s first chance to rule on separation of church and state.
Supreme Court to hear Mojave cross case
David G. Savage February 23, 2009.
Los Angeles Times
Justices will decide whether the monument can stand in a national preserve to honor fallen soldiers. It will be the Roberts court’s first chance to rule on separation of church and state.
