{"id":143,"date":"2002-06-27T22:00:56","date_gmt":"2002-06-27T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2002\/06\/27\/broad-stripes-and-black-robes\/"},"modified":"2007-03-09T17:53:46","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T21:53:46","slug":"broad-stripes-and-black-robes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2002\/06\/27\/broad-stripes-and-black-robes\/","title":{"rendered":"BROAD STRIPES AND BLACK ROBES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>TRUE<\/em><\/strong>: A federal judge of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco declares that the Pledge of Allegiance violates the constitutional separation of Church and State. Constitutional scholars declare that the Supreme Court will review the case.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SEMITRUE<\/em><\/strong>: Declaring that &#8220;<em>the Supreme Court is the only body almightier than the Supreme Being<\/em>&#8220;, Justice Antonin Scalia declares that the following oath survives &#8220;Constitutional muster&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We pledge allegiance to the Judge<br \/>\nof the Supreme Court of America<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And to the Republicans<br \/>\nfor which we stand<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One nation, under foot<br \/>\nTake liberties, these Justices for All.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRUE: A federal judge of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco declares that the Pledge of Allegiance violates the constitutional separation of Church and State. Constitutional scholars declare that the Supreme Court will review the case. SEMITRUE: Declaring that &#8220;the Supreme Court is the only body almightier than the Supreme Being&#8220;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satire","category-truesemitrue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E3H-2j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}