Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie... Would that be intimidating?
Sandra Day O'ConnorThe freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.
Sandra Day O'ConnorThe purpose prong of the Lemon test requires that a government activity have a secular purpose. That requirement is not satisfied, however, by the mere existence of some secular purpose, however dominated by religious purposes... The proper inquiry under the purpose prong of Lemon, I submit, is whether the government intends to convey a message of endorsement or disapproval of religion.
Sandra Day O'ConnorIt is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
Sandra Day O'Connor