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Alright, SCOTUS will allow the cross on public land in Maryland to stay up. Holds it does not violate the establishment clause.

But, er, it's going to take a minute to sort the opinions out. supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf…
Two terms in a row with SCOTUS ringing a bell about hostility to religion.
More on hostility to religion as incompatible with the establishment clause.
BTW, typos happen, even for SCOTUS. (This will be corrected in the official reporter and in a subsequent slip op.)
Book of Mormon reference tucked in Justice Alito's American Legion decision.
"A government that roams the land, tearing down monuments with
religious symbolism and scrubbing away any reference to the divine will strike many as aggressively hostile to religion."
Mild rebuke from J. Alito to the American Humanist Association (which challenged the cross) for implying in their brief that the cross and the American Legion were motivated by anti-Semitism or racism.
One of those "intimations" was that, gasp, Klansmen conducted a funeral "less than a mile away" from the cross. From the AHA brief:
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