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Constitutional Law,
U.S. Supreme Court

Oct. 27, 2009

The View - The Cross on the Hill

Few cases before the U.S. Supreme Court this year will receive more media attention than Salazar v. Buono.

Erwin Chemerinsky

Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law

Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).

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Few cases before the U.S. Supreme Court this year will receive more media attention than Salazar v. Buono. The issue is whether a large cross in a large federal park in the Mojave Desert violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The underlying issues are profoundly important: When do religious symbols on government property violate the Constitution? Who has standing to challenge them? Can the government avoid Establishment Clause issues by transferring the...

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