SCOTUS Will Not Review FL Pledge of Allegiance Law

(AP) - The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal to
review a Florida law that requires public school students to recite
the Pledge of Allegiance each day unless they have their parents'
written permission excusing them.
The justices declined Monday an appeal filed by the American
Civil Liberties Union of Florida on behalf of a high school student
removed from his math class because he remained seated during the
pledge.
A federal appeals court upheld most of the law. The ACLU said
that ruling, if left undisturbed, would undermine the Supreme
Court's 1943 ruling that schoolchildren could not be forced to
salute the flag and say the pledge.
Florida argued that the law, by giving parents the right to have
their children excused, does not violate the First Amendment.

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