Good ruling from the Ninth, for a change
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California is the most overturned court in the nation. In fact, columnist George Will made the interesting suggestion that…
There should be two Supreme Courts, one to reverse the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the other to hear all other cases. Last term, more of the Supreme Court’s caseload — 18 of 82 cases (22 percent) — came from the liberal 9th Circuit, based in San Francisco, than from any other circuit, and the 9th was reversed in 15 of the 18. The 9th’s winning percentage (.167) was worse than that of the 1962 Mets (.250).
The Ninth is notorious. Until now, there hasn’t been much (if any) good news coming out of their rulings for the cause of common sense, reason, and true tolerance in these wacky cases of lone atheists against…an 86 percent Christian majority in America.
On Friday, January 12, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the district court’s order requiring the City of San Diego to remove the Mt. Soledad Cross and vacated that order because the City no longer owns the land on which the Cross stands, ruling that the case brought against the City by the deceased, self-proclaimed atheist Philip Paulson was now moot.
Granted, it was no heroic leap into the realm of reason by the Ninth, given that it’s now moot anyway. And the atheist pressing the suit is deceased.
However, it’s never over, even when it seems to be over.
Richard Thompson, the President and Chief Counsel for the Law Center, commented, “We welcome this ruling. But the battle to save the Mt. Soledad veterans memorial is not over. The ACLU, displaying it zealous anti-Christian animosity, filed a new lawsuit to remove the Mt. Soledad Cross—this time against the federal government. We must now turn our resources toward defeating them again.”
…and again, and again…
All this, so someone doesn’t have to look at a Cross in a war memorial that…he doesn’t have to look at, anyway.