
Court happenings
Wednesday, March 24th, 2004So if you haven’t been paying attention the Supreme Court is now hearing arguments in that case about the phrase “under God” in the pledge of allegiance. I was reading through the court transcript of the arguments and stumbled accross this little nugget:MR. NEWDOW: Well, I’m not sure this isn’t a prayer, and I’m — I am sure that the Establishment Clause does not require prayer. President Bush, and this is in the Americans United brief, stated himself that when we ask our citizens to pledge allegiance to one nation under God, they are asked to participate in an important American tradition of humbly seeking the wisdom and blessing —
JUSTICE O’CONNOR: Yeah, but I suppose reasonable people could



