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Go down, Moses?

机译：下去，摩西？

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His law licence was suspended for failing to do work for which he had been paid. With no office to work from, he has to do his research in libraries, and he lives in a tent in a woodsy bit of Austin. Yet none of this has stopped Thomas Van Orden, the "homeless lawyer", from arguing his case against the state of Texas all the way to the highest court in the land. Mr Van Orden, on his daily strolls in the grounds of the Texas capitol, became perturbed by a six-foot-high red-granite monument of the Ten Commandments that sits between the statehouse and the state Supreme Court. It was, it seemed to him, a clear violation of the constitution. So he sued. He argued his case before the federal district court and appeals court, losing both times. But on March 2nd the Supreme Court heard his appeal, along with another involving framed copies of the Ten Commandments removed from two Kentucky courthouses. This time, the homeless lawyer let Erwin Chemerinsky, an expert on constitutional law from Duke University, present his case.
机译：他的法律执照因未能完成已获得报酬的工作而被吊销。由于没有办公室可工作，他不得不在图书馆做研究，他住在奥斯丁森林茂密的帐篷里。然而，这一切都没有阻止“无家可归的律师”托马斯·范·奥尔登（Thomas Van Orden）一直在针对德克萨斯州的诉讼，直至该国最高法院。凡·奥登（Van Orden）先生每天在得克萨斯州国会大厦的土地上散步时，被位于州议会大厦和州最高法院之间的十诫高六英尺的红花岗岩纪念碑所打扰。在他看来，这显然是违反宪法的。于是他起诉了。他在联邦地方法院和上诉法院辩论了案件，两次都败诉。但是在3月2日，最高法院听取了他的上诉，以及另一起涉及从肯塔基州两所法院移走的《十诫》框架副本的上诉。这次，无家可归的律师让杜克大学宪法专业专家Erwin Chemerinsky陈述了自己的案子。

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