For Immediate Release Contact: Sarah Henry, (202) 238-9088 ext. 105, shenry@americanhumanist.org (Washington D.C., June 28, 2019) — The U.S. Supreme Court just announced that it will overturn the American Humanist Association’s (AHA) victory in the Pensacola cross case, but asked a lower court to rehear the case. Both the district court and court of appeals had concluded that the Florida city’s 34-foot-tall Christian cross violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Today, the Supreme Court vacated those decisions for a rehearing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. “The lower courts properly ruled that a city violates our constitution’s Establishment Clause w
For Immediate Release Contact: Sarah Henry, (202) 238-9088 ext. 105, shenry@americanhumanist.org (Washington D.C., June 20, 2019) – The U.S. Supreme Court today reversed the earlier U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit decision in the ongoing Bladensburg cross litigation. The court will allow the Bladensburg cross to stand, but will not upset the overarching national precedent forbidding government-sponsored religious symbols. “After our earlier victory, our opponents took this case to the post-Kennedy Supreme Court hoping for a complete upheaval of the separation of church and state,” explained Monica Miller, senior counsel at the American Humanist Association (AHA). “Fortunately,
