Pledge of Allegiance, Replete with ‘God’ Reference, Upheld by 9th Cir.
March 12th, 2010 admin
Darn. The Ninth Circuit on Thursday came a mere one vote away from giving us something to write about for months and months and months. But alas, the vote came down 2-1 in favor of upholding the reference to God in the Pledge of Allegiance. Click here for the AP story; here for the LAT story; here for the opinion, in all of its 193-page glory (though most of it consists of Judge Stephen Reinhardt’s dissent). “The Pledge of Allegiance serves to unite our vast nation through the proud recitation of some of the ideals upon which our Republic was founded,” Judge Carlos Bea wrote for the majority. He was joined by judge Dorothy Nelson. Bea…
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