Supreme Court lets Peace Cross stand

By Melissa Quinn

Published June 20, 2019 2:18pm ET

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Supreme Court lets Peace Cross stand — Philip Holdcraft, left, past commander of Colmar Manor American Legion Post 311, and Mike Moore, right, past commander of the Greenbelt American Legion Post 136. This week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the meaning of the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial (otherwise known as the Peace Cross) in the The American Legion v. American Humanist Association case. The Peace Cross memorial, located in the three-way junction of Bladensburg Road, Baltimore Avenue, and Annapolis Road in Bladensburg, Maryland, Monday, February 25, 2019. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about whether the nearly 100-year-old, cross-shaped war memorial violates the Constitution's required separation of church and state. | Graeme jennnings

The Supreme Court will allow a 94-year-old Latin cross honoring 49 men who died in World War I to remain standing on public land in Maryland, it said Thursday.

The court ruled 7-2 that the cross does not violate the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.

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