Posted on 01/13/2005 10:14:23 AM PST by Jay777
This afternoon at 3:30 at the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC, oral arguments will take place in the Inauguration Prayer case. Dr. Michael Newdow has brought a challenge against President Bush in order to stop ministers from giving an invocation and benediction at the Inaugural swearing-in ceremony which will take place on Thursday, January 20th. All briefs in the case were filed on Friday. Senior Counsel Jim Henderson from our Washington, DC office will be in court on Thursday, and we will have frequent updates on our website starting this evening. We anticipate a very quick decision in the case. Dr. Newdow has asked for a preliminary injunction to stop the prayer activity. I anticipate the decision could be rendered as early as this evening. We have also been informed that Dr. Newdow plans on appealing the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and, possibly, even to the Supreme Court of the United States. Our senior research teams at the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) are ready to file any necessary legal briefs in this case.....
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Insanity.
This is the biggest bynuch of bulldurham I've ever seen.
How disgraceful.
Does this mean that the House and Senate will no longer open their daily sessions with a prayer...offered by a chaplain?
God help us and forgive us.
Newdow is a jerk.
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Newdow needs to get a life. What a waste.
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The Courts are the ones who are at fault, they're the problem for hearing this case and legitimizing morons like Newdow.
Congress (yes, the spineless one!) must take a stand against this type of encroaching Judicial imperialism, or this country will surely and sadly to go to hell.
The judge should just put this bit of absurdity at the bottom if his "in basket" and get to it in due time...about the year 2010..or in the same amount of time it would take you to get a hearing on a typical court case.
"We hold these truths to be self-evidentThe most basic and fundamental statement of American law is that men are CREATED. The clause that follows it identifies Him Who CREATED us as the CREATOR.
that all men are CREATED equal,
that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain inalienable rights..."
The recognition and legal acknowledgement of the CREATOR precedes and supercedes all else--even equality and human rights.
BTTT!
I agree with you. Newdow is still a jerk no matter what.
Check out this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1319980/posts
Doesn't this Dr. Newdow guy have a real job or something? All he seems to do is file lawsuits.
How can anyone, let alone Newdow himself, take himself seriously if he thinks that the Founders, many of whom were Presidents themselves (and thus had the invocation and benediction at their inauguration), intended for this to come to pass? I don't understand at all!
Let the backlash begin.
With any luck, this guy will create a scene on the Inauguration stand for all the world to see.
Michael Newdow is under the notorious 9th Circuit if I am right. What right does he have to file under the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC?
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