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• In Elkhart, Ind., a monument was moved from city land to private property on Main Street after the Supreme Court decided in 2001 to let stand a lower court ruling declaring it unconstitutional. "I don't see that this ruling has sufficiently pried open that door giving Elkhart license to move it back with impunity, and I don't wish to spend more taxpayer dollars to fund the likes of the ACLU," said Mayor David Miller in an interview.
• John Giles, president of the Christian Coalition of Alabama, said his organization is taking a "wait and see" attitude about the possibility of future monuments in his state. But he thinks the Supreme Court rulings demonstrated that former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore correctly placed a monument — which was later relocated — on state property. "Based on (Monday's) ruling, certainly the monument was unjustly removed from the judicial building," he said in an interview.

Manion, whose American Center for Law and Justice is handling 10 cases involving the Ten Commandments, said he thinks it's doubtful that Mahoney's plans to add more monuments to the many that already exist will actually happen in a year's time.

"Seems optimistic to me," he said. "City attorneys and county attorneys and government attorneys are going to be reviewing the same opinions as I'm reviewing and scratching their heads."

Correspondents Nancy Glass, Bobby Ross, Heather Horiuchi and Dennis O'Connor contributed to this report.

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