It has taken five years of litigation — resulting in a four volume appendix — to determine whether a nearly 100-year-old veterans memorial is constitutional. On Wednesday, February 27, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear arguments over whether the Bladensburg WWI veterans memorial violates the U.S. Constitution.
Opponents claim that the cross-shaped memorial violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment because it sits beside a stoplight in a publicly owned highway median just outside of Washington, D.C. Their solution varies. Some argue that it could be hoisted by a crane and moved elsewhere. Other suggest knocking the horizontal arms off the memorial. Still others would just pulverize the whole thing and put up a plaque, instead.
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