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If the city puts up a donated 10 Commandments monument, must it put up every other donated monument lest it violate Free Speech?
Althouse — SCOTUSblog previews tomorrow's oral argument in Pleasant Grove City, et al., v. Summum. Will the Justices’ vision be fogged by a cloud of potential horribles? The Solicitor General’s brief well illustrates this argument: “Under the decision below, a city’s display of a privately donated monument to Abraham Lincoln could entitle an individual to insist that the city permit the erection of a monument to Jefferson Davis, or a group could insist that the presence of the memorial in [Pleasant Grove’s] Pioneer Park commemorating the September 11 attacks ...

Is The Endorsement Test Up for Grabs in New Supreme Court Case?
The Volokh Conspiracy — ... lower courts and government officials clearer guidance for a wide range of cases by concluding that government speech isn't made unconstitutional by its endorsement of religion. Such provision of guidance for future cases is an important part of the Court's function, and the endorsement test's critics have long argued that the Court's adoption of that test has been a failure on that score. In any case, should be quite a case to watch (unless the Court decides the major issue in Pleasant Grove City v. Summum ...