Following the Bladensburg cross case decision, the justices sent the Pensacola case back to the 11th Circuit for reconsideration. There can be no doubt that the Bladensburg cross decision – as narrow as it may have been written – redrew constitutional boundaries when it comes to government-owned religious displays.
A ruling issued by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a case out of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, offers the first case to lean heavily on the Supreme Court’s Bladensburg cross case decision.
New policies issued by the Veterans Administration regarding religious displays at VA facilities suggests the Supreme Court’s Bladensburg Cross ruling is already having a substantive impact, less than two weeks later.
A Texas county commission voted to keep in place four crosses displayed at the courthouse after an church-state separation advocates urged their removal.
A new federal lawsuit filed claims a Bible included in a display at a Veterans hospital violates religious liberty protections of the First Amendment and should be removed.