Van Orden v. Perry
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Van Orden v. Perry, 545 U.S. 677, is a United States Supreme Court case involving whether a display of the Ten Commandments on a monument given to the government at the Texas State Capitol in Austin v
Ten Commandments Monument at the Texas State Capitol
Monument with State Capitol in background
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Stephen Breyer
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Stephen Gerald Breyer is an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1994 until his retirement in 2022. He was nominated by President Bill Clinton,
Van Orden v. Perry
…to "the nature of the monument and ... our Nation's history." Chief Justice William Rehnquist delivered the plurality opinion of the Court; Justice Stephen Breyer concurred in the judgment but wrote separately. The similar case of McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky was handed down the same day with the opposite…
Official portrait, c. 2006
Breyer in the Stanford University yearbook, 1959
Breyer in 2024
Breyer in 2011