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Even though the land has long been home to such illustrious corpses, Eliot suggests that “it seems not to have been very carefully guarded.” He points to evidence that it was used as a sheep pasture until...
...first start of the season with junior Gino Gordon injured and freshman Treavor Scales away for a family funeral. And Ho seized the opportunity, running for 132 yards on 21 carries and scoring two of the Crimson’s touchdowns—one by air, one by land...
...site was denied. But in 2000, Congress hastily passed a law prohibiting the use of public funds to remove the cross, in essence tying the National Park Service's hands. Congress declared the cross a National Memorial in 2002, and in 2003 it gave the small parcel of land to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) - the group that constructed the original cross. (See TIME's photo-essay "Sonia Sotomayor, the Making of a Judge...
...line separating church and state that takes its name from the First Amendment (which begins, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"). This case has been in the court system since early 2000, before Congress's involvement. The National Park Service's attempt to transfer the land to the VFW, per the 2003 congressional order, has been viewed by the lower courts as an illegal way of circumventing repeated rulings compelling it to remove the cross. (Once the land is considered private property, the Establishment Clause no longer applies.) The Supreme Court will be asked to sort...
Salazar v. Buono At issue: Whether the government can permit the display of a crucifix on public land as per the Establishment Clause...