27 years ago and let s i ll be quite blunt. president bush said to me, not too terribly long ago, i believe justice thomas and i don t believe that woman. but he wanted to know what the facts were. and he wanted the fbi to undertake that so the judiciary committee and the senate could make a decision that was at least informed by the best we can be. we cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good. say that again. both sides we cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good. so, for either side to say that somehow or another a line of inquiry or a different approach will lead us to 100% truth is probably not the case. but we have to do what we can do. and we have a system where you can investigate. you can talk to witnesses. it s as much a part of the rule of law going back to magna carte
government and certainly within 29 framed documents, the 10 commandments is very consistent and should be a part of it. what s the message from this judge? is this a politically correct move or what is the message? the message essentially would be just eliminate any reference to god but if you did that, if we started with the first four, we d have to then move to the declaration of independence and the magna carte and we d have to start editing everything. the money, in god we trust. a lot of this stuff we d have to edit out. none of these documents are edited or excerpted. they re all in their original form. what a viewer should know is in the supreme court, the 10 commandments are on the wall, right? yeah. in fact, most people would be surprised to realize there s around 50 displays of the 10 commandments both in and outside of the supreme court of the united states. and the final question, do you believe that the 10 commandments are as equally important as the constitu
but matthew, they re the 10 commandments. they re not the six commandments. i know, even when that was suggested to the aclu, they said i m not sure even about the last six because if you say thou shalt not, everybody knows they come from the 10 commandments. probably a good idea to kill. that s so ridiculous. on its face, what is this judge trying to say? he wants to take out the religious aspect of the 10 commandments, correct? and your argument is that because there are other documents in this display like the declaration of independence, liis more of a historical displ than a religious one, isn t that the argument? that s exactly right. and in fact when you go through history, the magna carte, the bill of rights, jefferson s statute of religious freedom and the 10 commandments they were very influential in the development of law and government. this is a display about history, about virginia history, about american history, about law and
one is an explan torrey fact that talks about the documents displayed on the law have had a profound influence on american law and government including the magna carte. the declaration of independence and other documents including the ten commandments. when you go to the united states supreme court both in and outside the building there are approximately 50 displays of the ten commandments in the building. it is the seal of the 9th circuit court of appeals that contains the ten commandments and you can see it in courts of law all over this country tore one simple and very profound reason and that is western civilization and american law and government have been profoundly influenced by the ten commandments. shannon: dan, let me ask you with all of those things in mind is the filing of the lawsuit to bring awareness to the attention of what you call a protest or do you think that this lawsuit has a good chance of succeeding on the merits? this case has already been determined.