Michael Newdow
Michael Newdow
Michael Arthur Newdowis an American attorney and emergency medicine physician. He is best known for his efforts to have recitations of the current version of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools in the United States declared unconstitutional because of its inclusion of the phrase "under God". He also filed and lost a lawsuit to stop the invocation prayer at President Bush's second inauguration and in 2009 he filed a lawsuit to prevent references to God and religion from being...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth24 June 1953
CountryUnited States of America
It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit.
No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.
He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.
Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia should be commended for acknowledging that his views are so strong that - should the Pledge case reach the Supreme Court - he wouldn't be able to maintain the requisite impartiality.
I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American.
There's a principle here, and I'm hoping the court will uphold this principle so that we can finally go back and have every American want to stand up, face the flag, place their hand over their heart and pledge to one nation, indivisible, not divided by religion, with liberty and justice for all.
Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution.
A lot of God-loving people think that killing people who don't agree with them is OK.
I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
I believe I am strengthening the Constitution with my case.
That is an actual, concrete, discrete, particularized, individualized harm to me, which gives me standing.
I tried out different openings, but most of them got torn to shreds. Some of them sounded great, then bombed big-time,
It was never concluded and violated the Constitution, ... I think that is wrong - I'm happy that the idea is getting recognized and that a judge recognized that.
All it has to do is put the pledge as it was before and say that we are one nation, indivisible, instead of dividing us on religious basis.