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March 23, 2004
Elmo goes to court
Mr. Newdow (not to be confused with Mr. Noodle) goes before the Supreme Court tomorrow to begin the hearing of United States and Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow.
Rather than getting into how ridicules the case is, I'd like to point out that he should never have been able to bring the case in the first place. While I would really like to hear the outcome from the court I think it would be a better serve of justice for them to vacate all the prior rulings and find that Mr. Newdow has no standing.
He brought the case on behalf of his daughter because he was offended that she had to use the words "under God." While I disagree with the idea that the pledge is unconstitutional I don't have a problem with someone trying to bring the case. Mr. Newdow, however, has no parental rights. They were given up during a custody case and the court papers of that case state that any case involving the girl cannot be brought by him. (In addition, he may have no standing because psychological injury is not sufficient reason to being a lawsuit under Article III of the Constitution.)
Posted by Jesse at March 23, 2004 6:38 PM