Stone v. Graham

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1981-01-12

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Justice Rehnquist, dissenting. With no support beyond its own ipse dixit, the Court concludes that the Kentucky statute involved in this case “has no secular legislative purpose,” ante, at 41 (emphasis supplied), and that “[t]he pre-eminent purpose for posting the Ten Commandments on schoolroom walls is plainly religious in nature,” ibid. This even though, as the trial court…

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