A mezuzah on the door is OK, but no one knows how Ruth Bader Ginsburg will judge the public display of the Ten Commandments. The Supreme Court justice, who will consider this term whether displaying the Ten Commandments violates church-state separation, described the large, silver mezuzah on her chambers’ doorpost, as well as the biblical injunction, “Justice, justice shall you pursue.”
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