Moot Court Preparations for Commandments Cases

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Jay Sekulow

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May 23, 2011

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It is crunch time at the Supreme Court.  With March 2nd fast approaching -- the day the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the two Ten Commandments cases -- we are working to prepare for moot court sessions that begin tommorrow in our office in Washington, D.C.

We will be participating in a number of these sessions through February 28th -- designed to prepare the attorneys who present the arguments.  I am working with out senior team at the ACLJ and I will be meeting with Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver, who will argue the Kentucky case.  Also, I will be meeting with Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who will be defending the Texas display and Acting Solicitor General Paul Clement, a good friend of ours, who will assert the government's position that these displays are constitutional.  We will be posting photos from Friday's moot court session on our website tomorrow afternoon.

These are going to be difficult cases.  The high court will hear them back-to-back on March 2nd and we will probably get decisions in these cases in late spring, early summer.  These decisions will affect the way hundreds of displays now appear in communities across the country - including two cases we have pending now before the Supreme Court.

The Commandments cases are beginning to attract the attention of the media and the legal community as well.  I will be taking part in a moot court with ACLU President Nadine Strossen next week at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.  And, later in the week, I will debate Douglas Laycock, Assoc. Dean for Research, University of Texas School of Law on the issue in an event in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.  And I have already spoken to numerous reporters -- including NPR and Bloomberg News -- about the importance of these cases.