The Roberts Court

[Douglas Laycock]

I would also add that he won't change his vote on the creche in Allegheny County.
 
Douglas Laycock
Alice McKean Young Regents Chair in Law
The University of Texas at Austin
 
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From: religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu on behalf of Ed Brayton
Sent: Tue 7/25/2006 2:43 PM
To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject: Re: The Roberts Court



Volokh, Eugene wrote:

>       I was thinking about the Mt. Soledad case, but it may not be
>optimal from the conservatives' viewpoint, since it's an overtly
>Christian symbol.  The line Scalia drew in the Ten Commandments cases
>seemed to be between the Christian symbols and Judeo-Christian-Muslim(?)
>symbols, with the former generally not allowed and the latter allowed.
>The Mt. Soledad cross could still be upheld on some specific grounds,
>for instance that it's in context likely to be seen as a war memorial
>and not just a cross (I'm skeptical of that on the facts, but that's one
>possible argument) -- but these grounds may be too fact-specific to
>warrant full Court review.  So I'd think that the conservatives on the
>Court might prefer a more Ten-Commandments-like case.
> 
>
I would be more than happy to take bets on whether Scalia would redraw
that line if the Mt. Soledad case reaches the court. I predict that such
line-drawing will be non-existent in his judgement on that case.

Ed Brayton
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