With the holidays upon, I’m taking today’s post to review the law on the display of Christmas or other holiday decorations by the government. In Boise, we have an enormous Christmas tree sitting in front of the capitol building, for example. Does that violate the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution? What if, instead of a Christmas tree, the government wanted to display a menorah, a giant statute of Buddha, or a statute of Lord Shiva (a major Hindu deity)? The ...
Can I Get A New Judge, Please?
I had the pleasure of attending the annual District of Idaho Bench Bar Conference on Friday – an annual meeting of our federal court judges and those of us who practice regularly in that court. I was once again struck by two facts. First, we are fortunate to have an amazing group of eight men and women who serve this state as our federal judges. They are incredibly dedicated and hard-working jurists, but also happen to be eight friendly and funny people. Judge Lodge had me in stitches. ...
