Ethics

Oral Argument in Summum Case

By Ed Brayton

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the Summum case on Wednesday. You can see a full transcript here. You can't necessarily tell how a justice will vote based on the questions they ask or how the oral argument went for either side, but this one was particularly interesting. Jay Sekulow went first, arguing on behalf of the city of Pleasant Grove, which denied the placement of the Summum monument.

His argument, as it has been all along, is that there is no open forum established by the city through the act of accepting the Ten Commandments monument from the Eagles because once they accept it, the monument becomes government speech rather than private speech.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 13, 2008 (boomark / email).