Supreme Court to Rule on Peace Cross WWI Memorial
The U.S. Supreme Court has announced it will decide whether a war memorial cross is constitutional under the First Amendment. As explained in more detail here , the Bladensburg Peace Cross was funded and erected nearly a century ago by the American Legion and others to commemorate the lives of...
Major Victory for Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers in Hawaii
Can the government force you to speak a message that contradicts what you believe as a moral and religious matter? Thanks to more than half-a-century of Supreme Court decisions, the answer to that question is no . The Court has stated time and time again that “freedom of speech prohibits the...
ACLJ Files brief in Support of Bladensburg Cross
Supreme Court decisions interpreting the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause are not, to put it charitably, a model of clarity. The jurisprudence arising out of those decisions has been described by the lower court judges as a “judicial morass,” “rife with confusion,” and a “trial judge’s...
Pro-Life Centers Can’t Be Forced to Promote Abortion
Today, in a 5-4 decision , the United States Supreme Court held that California cannot conscript pro-life pregnancy centers into mouthing a government-dictated message motivated by that state’s pro-abortion ideology. This is a resounding victory for the First Amendment right to free speech and the...
