DENVER—Attorneys for an alliance of Christian attorneys say they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling that a Ten Commandments monument at the Haskell County courthouse is unconstitutional.
The Alliance Defense Fund announced plans to appeal Friday after a sharply divided federal appeals court refused to reconsider the decision. On a 6-6 vote the judges let stand the June 8 ruling by a three-judge panel that the monument endorses religion.
County commissioners had asked the full court to rehear the case.
ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot says there is no difference between the Haskell County Ten Commandments display and one upheld at the Texas state capitol.
The June decision was written by 10th Circuit Judge Jerome Holmes of Oklahoma City who was appointed by former President George W. Bush.
