American Atheists, Inc. v. Port Authority of N.Y. & N.J.

REENA RAGGI, Circuit Judge:

On the morning of September 11, 2001, a group of Islamic terrorists murdered almost 3,000 persons by hijacking four commercial airplanes and crashing them into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. 1 Ten years to the day after these horrific events, the current and former Presidents of the United States, Barack Obama and George W. Bush, traveled to the World Trade Center site, commonly referred to as “Ground Zero,” to dedicate a National Memorial to these victims, as well as to six persons killed in the earlier 1993…