Judge commanded to remove Ten Commandments poster (unanimous 6th Circuit panel)

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A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that found an Ohio judge's courtroom display of the Ten Commandments unconstitutional.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that Richland County Common Pleas Judge James DeWeese violated the First Amendment when he put up a poster in his Mansfield courtroom.

The appeals court upheld a 2009 district court judge's ruling that the poster unconstitutionally endorsed particular religious views over others. The poster, designed and framed by the judge, and titled "Philosophies of Law in Conflict," compared the "moral absolutes" of the Ten Commandments to the "moral relatives" of humanism...

Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which filed a brief in the constitutional challenge to the poster by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, praised the appeals court in a statement.

"Judge DeWeese was improperly promoting his personal religious beliefs in his courtroom, and I'm glad the appeals court put a stop to it," said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, the Washington, D.C., group's executive director.

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/02/03/copy/judge-commanded-to-remove-poster.html?adsec=politics&sid=101


Before:

Judge Julia Smith Gibbons, U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Nominated by George W. Bush on October 9, 2001

Judge Eric L. Clay, U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Nominated by William J. Clinton on January 7, 1997

Judge Eugene Edward Siler Jr., U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Nominated by George H.W. Bush on June 19, 1991

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1. Link:

http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/11a0029p-06.pdf

[LiberalFighter]

2. Those judges need to be removed from office as they have demonstrated

they are not impartial when they knowingly put religion above the law.

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3. Well, at least he will have to take down his silly display