10th Circuit Orders Ten Commandments Monument Removed

The AP reports that "Haskell County commissioners have lost another round in their fight for a Ten Commandments monument on the courthouse lawn in Stigler. A federal appeals court in Denver voted 2-1 Friday to deny their request to leave the monument in place until the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether to review the case. Commissioners said they didn't want to pay unnecessarily to remove the monument, which the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals declared unconstitutional in June. The commissioners asked for a stay Tuesday, a day after U.S. District Judge Ronald White in Muskogee ordered them to remove the monument. White did not set a deadline. The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma and a Haskell County resident sued to have the monument removed shortly after it was erected in 2004."
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