Meant to post this yesterday, but didn’t get around to it. SCOTUS ducked the Pledge of Allegiance issue, once again showing its spinelessness in cases where the clear majority of the people disagree with the plaintiff AND where the plaintiff is standing in murky legal water.
SCOTUS found Michael Newdow did not have legal authority to speak for his daughter, and thus threw the case out. Way to stand up for first amendment rights there, guys.
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Actually, standing is an extremely important part of law – accepting it in this case would’ve thrown a lot of law onto its ear. See http://www.slate.com/id/2102381/ as an example.
Actually, SCOTUS did accept the case. They just didn’t rule on it, which seemed to be a way of ducking the issue. SCOTUS knows this is a hotbutton issue. It knows the issue will come up again.
I fear that SCOTUS has ruled irresponsibly on similar issues in the past, and this means that when it does come up again, it does not bode well for the future of “under God”. The next time this comes up will be just one more crack in the dam.