Federal Judge Declares Pledge Of Allegiance Unconstitutional

Click2Houston.com ^ | 1:07 pm CDT September 14, 2005 | AP

[The Noodle]

Well now, I read today's decision, and apparently the Supreme Court "reversed," rather than "vacated," the prior Newdow case. However, the district court's reasoning that the 9th Circuit decision is still binding because it was "reversed" on the grounds of "prudential standing" is, IMHO, nonsense. Of course it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things because this case will go to the 9th Circuit regardless of what the district court judge decided.

[ml/nj]

UnF'n Believable

You're not really surprised, are you?

ML/NJ

[Calif4Bush]

What is happening to my country?

I'm really getting scared.

GOD bless the USA!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Last time this happened, Congress was fuming mad. Where's the outrage now? Oops, don't want to get Roberts in there too easy.

[sageb1]

Perhaps it's time for us to take back our children from the control of the state.

This will come to SCOTUS. That is certain.

I suggest FReepers start doing their homework. Some seem to feel that this ruling will be shot down by the Supreme Court, but I, for one, cannot be comfortable with such "feelings," considering the destruction activist courts have wrought on this country.

Try reading WISCONSIN v. YODER ET AL. for starters.

1972 SCOTUS ruling on compulsory education for Amish children.

[Chinito]

Here ya go.....

[jess35]

It's not nonsense. As far as the 9th circuit goes, the original ruling is still in effect until it is overruled by a higher court.

[jess35]

Perhaps it's time for us to take back our children from the control of the state.

The real question is, why in the hell would any responsible parent EVER put their child in the control of the state?

[AndyJackson]

It was tossed on procedural grounds, but the reasoning still stands, and lower courts are still bound by it.

No the reasoning does not still stand. The case was tossed. It is not a precedent for anything. Period.

[AndyJackson]

he original ruling is still in effect until it is overruled by a higher court

It was tossed.

[combat_boots]

The tyranny of the minority.

[dufekin]

The entire Fran-freako Circus is nothing but nonsense. It should be abolished, or at least constrained in its jurisdiction to a few small deep-blue states (California and various Pacific territories, possibly with Hawai'i).

[DustyMoment]

Thanks. I had it somewhere, I just couldn't find it and it seemed particularly appropriate.

[judgeandjury]

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."

I wonder where this right that school children have to be "free from a coercive requirement to affirm God" is derived from. It's certainly not stated in the U.S. Constitution.

[lowbridge]

easy there, it is just where the court is located, we had nothing to do with the decision.

Don't worry, buddy. You'll get a 72 hour evacuation warning. :-)

[stylin19a]

Thanx for the explanation....

[Issaquahking]

Ninth circus losers, take note from our friend Sam Adams -

" If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands that which feed you. May your chain be set lightly upon you and posterity forget ye were our countrymen."


Maybe the Ninth circus court should be the target of a "special commission" set up to investigate them, so that they may be disbarred, and America can reject these seditionists.


Maybe Red Skelton could clue them up here.

[jess35]

No, it was not.

[TheeOhioInfidel]

The reason it's happening is because true patriots in office - afraid of public opinion - are afraid to confront the secular left with the truth: America is a nation conceived under God, the Judeo-Christain God, like it or leave it, and we believe in the supreme greatness of this God to guide our country to glory and defeat our enemies. Until we can stand up openly for such principles, the enemies of the state will continue to get their way, ignited by the the sedition ring leader in the supreme court, godd old Ruth Bater, who is also a traitor to her religion.

[Centurion2000]

SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge in San Francisco ruled Wednesday it is unconstitutional for public school children to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

Meanwhile in 49 other states that are not terminally struck by liberalism and idiocy, the pledge recitations continue.