January 27, 2010
Source: The Columbus Dispatch
A second constitutional challenge to an Ohio judge's display of the Ten Commandments in his courtroom is making its way through the court system.
At issue is whether a new, self-designed and framed poster put up by Richland County Common Pleas Judge James DeWeese in his Mansfield courtroom is constitutional. He says it is. Advocates for church-state separation say it isn't.
The judge hung the poster in 2006. That was after the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 let stand previous lower-court rulings that his first poster, which he hung in 2000, violated the constitutional separation between church and state.