TUPELO, Miss. – A Mississippi judge again asked everyone in his courtroom to stand and pledge allegiance to the flag, despite an uproar over whether he has the right to make such a request.
The furor began Wednesday when an attorney with a reputation for fighting free speech battles stayed silent as everyone else recited the patriotic oath. The lawyer was jailed.
A day later, Judge Talmadge Littlejohn continued to ask those in his courtroom to say the pledge.
"I didn't expect the Pledge of Allegiance, but he asked me to do it, so I did it," said Melissa Adams, 41, who testified in a child custody case that was closed to the public.
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5 comments:
good for the judge! teaching a little respect for the country and others around you.
besides its HIS courtroom, you do as he says - end of story.
im sorry but anyone that is asked to do the pledge should do it .... failure to recite the pledge just shows complete disrespect to this country and to those that have protected it ..... and im sure that ill have some whiney liberal complain about it ...but most liberals hate this country
It is not HIS courtroom.
It is the People's courtroom.
He is a public servant.
And in Amerika we still have the freedom to not pledge allegiance to a reprehensible and illegitimate government.
I do not recognize the military dictatorship
I think that the lawyer is a jerk, but I don't believe the judge was within his Constitutional right to demand that. The judge should have called the lawyer out and made sure everyone else KNEW how much of a jerk the lawyer was. I see a lawsuit coming, and the state will end up having to spend taxpayer money to settle.
This judge should be removed immediately. He obviously is not qualified to interpret the laws of this country.
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