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Government

Jul. 3, 2002

Why All the Commotion? Precedents Were There

SAN FRANCISCO - A decade ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court barred clergymen from offering school graduation prayers on grounds the practice was unconstitutional, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a dissent needling his colleagues that the next project for "court bulldozers" should be the Pledge of Allegiance.

Reporter's Notebook

By Pamela A. MacLean
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - A decade ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court barred clergymen from offering school graduation prayers on grounds the practice was unconstitutional, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a dissent needling his colleagues that the next project for "court bul...

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