Constitutional Law

High court won't revisit Ky. commandments case

By By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has passed up a chance to take another look at a six-year-old ruling that struck down the display of the Ten Commandments in two Kentucky courthouses.

McCreary and Pulaski counties had appealed recent lower court rulings barring them from posting the commandments, despite changes to the displays to include multiple religious and government documents.

The counties were hoping that those modifications, as well as critical changes in the composition of the high court since it ruled in the case in 2005, would lead the justices to take up their appeal.

But the Court declined to do so today, without comment.

Full post as published by First Amendment Center on February 21, 2011 (boomark / email).