{"id":299,"date":"2005-09-14T11:45:48","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T18:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/14\/pledge-of-allegiance-ruled-unconstitutional\/"},"modified":"2005-09-14T11:59:53","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T18:59:53","slug":"pledge-of-allegiance-ruled-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/14\/pledge-of-allegiance-ruled-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Pledge of Allegiance ruled unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I&#8217;m in the right place&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/national\/view.bg?articleid=102554\">Pledge ruled unconstitutional<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBy Associated Press<br \/>\nWednesday, September 14, 2005 &#8211; Updated: 02:06 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; A federal judge in San Francisco has declared it unconstitutional to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools.<br \/>\n     The judge, ruling in a lawsuit brought by Sacramento atheist Michael Newdow, today ruled that he is bound by precedent of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.<br \/>\n      Newdow objected to the words &#8221;under God&#8221; in the pledge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/27\/indivisible-but-not-under-god\/\">My rant on the subject<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a court fires pot-shots like this, the rulingslikely won&#8217;t stick nationally, but the sentiment is still there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I&#8217;m in the right place&#8230;. Pledge ruled unconstitutional By Associated Press Wednesday, September 14, 2005 &#8211; Updated: 02:06 PM EST SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; A federal judge in San Francisco has declared it unconstitutional to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools. The judge, ruling in a lawsuit brought by Sacramento atheist Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}