After a federal judge last week took new action to require the removal of the large cross from on top of California's Mt. Soledad, California Representative Duncan Hunter has written President Bush, asking him to exercise the federal power of eminent domain to turn the land under the cross into a national park. Orders by a federal judge to remove the cross rely on provisions in the California constitution. Supporters think that federal law is less restrictive. The developments are reported in today's San Diego Union Tribune.
UPDATE: Sunday's San Diego Union Tribune profiles Jim McElroy, lawyer for the plaintiff in the Mt. Soledad cross case. McElroy has received a good number of nasty, and even threatening, e-mails and phone calls from outraged defenders of the cross.
