Last week the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Salazar v. Buono, a case that the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit in 2001 on behalf of an Oregon man, Frank Buono, to remove an 8-foot cross from federal property in the Mojave Desert.
The cross has stood as a World War I memorial since 1934, when it was erected by members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Over the years the cross has been…