WASHINGTON (ABP) — The House of Representatives voted July 19 to strip the federal courts of the ability to decide cases involving the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools.
The “Pledge Protection Act” passed on a vote of 260–167. It echoed a similar bill the House passed by a similar margin in 2004. The Senate did not consider the 2004 bill and is not expected to consider the latest version.
Religious Right groups have claimed the bill is necessary to keep the words “under God” from being removed from the pledge.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals originally ordered the words removed from the pledge in 2002 but later backtracked on their decision about removing the words.
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