Obama Judges Rule Cross Monument Must Go, Showing Elections Do Have Consequences

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COMMENTARY BY
Peter Parisi
Peter Parisi is an editor and writer for The Daily Signal.

When Republican congressional leaders went to the White House on Jan. 23, 2009—just three days into Barack Obama’s presidency—to discuss legislation, he helpfully reminded them that his policy preferences necessarily had to prevail because “elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won.”

Obama is out of office now, but the regrettable consequences of his election remain strewn across the political landscape. Perhaps nowhere is that more consequential than in the makeup of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The 4th Circuit handles cases originating from the states of Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Obama appointed six of the eight judges who, on March 1, refused to reconsider a wrongheaded 2-1 ruling of a 4th Circuit panel last fall. That ruling found the World War I memorial Peace Cross in Bladensburg, Maryland, suddenly “unconstitutional” after more than 90 years without controversy.

Erected with funding from the American Legion and local families in 1925, at what is now the intersection of U.S. Route 1 and Maryland state Route 450, the 40-foot cross features a plaque listing the names of 49 Prince George’s County men who gave their lives in what H.G. Wells dubbed—wrongly, as it turned out—“the war that will end war.”

The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission took control of the land on which the memorial sits in 1961 because of its location.


https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/03/26/obama-judges-rule-cross-monument-must-go-showing-elections-consequences/

[Fishrrman]

Push this one to the Supreme Court.

[cato potatoe]

Is there any record of the founding fathers objecting to crosses on government property, or for that matter, anyone prior to the mid twentieth century?  To me, it just seems like an invention of demonic lawyers.