U.S. Supreme Court

In a 7-2 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of preserving a historic cross-shaped memorial in Bladensburg, Maryland saying the cross did not endorse religion.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a state law — reversing an appeals court ruling — that requires abortion providers to bury or cremate fetal remains. It also refused to take up a challenge to a block of the state law that would prevent women from obtaining abortions based on the gender, race or a potential diagnosis of Down syndrome of the fetus.

On March 29, the Supreme Court stayed the execution of Texas death-row inmate Patrick Murphy while he was appealing the state’s refusal to allow a Buddhist spiritual adviser to be present at his execution.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Feb. 27 to consider if the 40-foot cross endorses religion or is just a secular memorial.

The Supreme Court is sending a death-row case back to the lower courts to determine if the inmate’s dementia, brought on by strokes he suffered while on death row, should prevent him from being executed.

The U.S. Supreme Court seemed to lean toward preserving a historic cross-shaped memorial in Maryland Feb. 27 without making overall clarifications about the constitutionality of religious symbols on public property.

The day before the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments about a cement memorial cross in a grassy median strip in an intersection of a Washington suburb, there was no fanfare at the cross itself.

or the second time in his case, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed an inmate’s death penalty sentence because of his intellectual disability.