Legal Opinion
Van Orden v. Perry
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 27, 2005No. 03-1500PublishedCited by 335 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
the Court and delivered an opinion,
in which Justice Scalia, Justice Kennedy, and Justice Thomas join.
The question here is whether the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment allows the display of a monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments on the Texas State Capitol grounds. We hold that it does.
The 22 acres surrounding the Texas State Capitol contain 17 monuments and 21 historical markers commemorating the “people, ideals, and events that compose Texan identity.” Tex. H. Con. Res. 38, 77th Leg., Reg. Sess. (2001).1 The monolith challenged here stands 6-feet high and 3-feet wide. It is…
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