A lawyer friend of mine, who’s a pretty fair-minded guy and whose judgment I trust on these things, writes:
Judge Carter in the C.D. Cal. (Santa Ana) has staged a wonderful constitutional joke.
Outside his courtroom he has a Christmas tree and a menorah next to a table with a coffee set-up. The menorah and Christmas tree are very close. He also has strung some Christmas lights along the floor to set a little path into the courtroom. On the opposite side of the path are two reindeer, one of which is wearing sunglasses. The distance from the Christmas tree to the reindeer appears to have been carefully measured, perhaps to test the outer limits of the reindeer-proximity rule. There also is a Frosty the Snowman near the display, the tree, reindeer and snowman forming a roughly equilateral triangle. Overseeing it all is a hovering flying pig, perhaps a comment on the foolishness of most Establishment Clause jurisprudence.
Clearly a great deal of thought went into this. I am mightily impressed.
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