Sep 14 2005
Pledging Allegiance Is Unconstitutional?
Are the liberal judges trying to make Roberts look good? Are they trying to show how far over the edge the democrat party is being pulled by the liberal dead-enders? What else explains this incredibly dumb decision out today:
Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools was ruled unconstitutional Wednesday by a federal judge who granted legal standing to two families represented by an atheist who lost his previous battle before the U.S. Supreme Court.
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton ruled that the pledge’s reference to one nation “under God” violates school children’s right to be “free from a coercive requirement to affirm God.”
Geez, if it bothers you so much renounce your citizenship. No one is forcing you to stay here. And the judge is one un-informed person
Karlton said he was bound by precedent of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which in 2002 ruled in favor of Sacramento atheist Michael Newdow that the pledge is unconstitutional when recited in public schools.
Newdow’s case was thrown out in the US Supreme Court – which is the final precedence in that matter. Did this fool buy is law degree from the internet???
Actually, if I understand correctly, the Supreme Court blinked. They threw the case out by ruling that the father (because didn’t have primary custody of his son) lacked standing to bring the suit. This disposed of his suit — but the Court didn’t actually rule on the underlying constitutionality of the pledge.
So, the judge in question has “plausible deniability” to say that his hands are tied by the ruling of the highest court that has ruled on this.
That said… to borrow a phrase from Justice Thomas, this suit and this ruling both seem “uncommonly silly”.