Great News! U.S. Supreme Court Accepts Mojave Desert Cross Case!

The Supreme Court announced today that it will hear the case regarding the Mojave Desert Cross, a memorial to World War I veterans that has been declared unconstitutional by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  In November of 2008, Free Market Foundation’s legal arm, Liberty Legal Institute, filed an amicus brief asking The Court to hear the case on behalf of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW), The American Legion, the Military Order of the Purple Heart (MOPH), Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of California, and American Ex-Prisoners of War (AXPOW).  The VFW erected the memorial and originally owned the land on which the memorial sits, and had donated it to the government in 1934.  The ACLU sued for removal of the veterans’ memorial on the grounds that it is unconstitutional, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed and ordered the memorial and cross dismantled.   After that decision, the VFW gave 5 acres of land in exchange for the retrieval of their monument.  The Ninth Circuit ruled that was unconstitutional and ordered the monument and cross dismantled instead. The cross is currently covered by a plywood box, awaiting The Supreme Court’s decision.

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