The U.S. Supreme Court refused to reopen a challenge to the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance. The court refused a California atheist’s request Monday to revisit its ruling against him in June, when it discarded his case on a custody issue while side-stepping the controversial issue of the language “under God.”
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