Justice Department Defends Mount Soledad Memorial
President Obama’s Justice Department is reportedly appealing the case of the Mount Soledad Memorial to the US Supreme Court. (A similar petition was filed by the Liberty Institute.) The 9th Circuit court of appeals previously ruled the 43-foot cross unconstitutional.
The government should not be required “to tear down a cross that has stood without incident for 58 years as a highly venerated memorial to the nation’s fallen service members,” Solicitor General Read more