Thou Shalt Not Take the Lord's Name...from the Pledge

Yahoo News on House passing a bill that prohibits all federal courts from deciding cases regarding the Pledge of Allegiance and particularly the words "under God."

Why this bill is bull shit, part 1:

"So if a law be in opposition to the constitution; if both the law and the constitution apply to a particular case, so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law, disregarding the constitution; or conformably to the constitution, disregarding the law; the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.If then the courts are to regard the constitution; and the constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature; the constitution, and not such ordinary act, must govern the case to which they both apply.Those then who controvert the principle that the constitution is to be considered, in court, as a paramount law, are reduced to the necessity of maintaining that courts must close their eyes on the constitution, and see only the law.This doctrine would subvert the very foundation of all written constitutions. It would declare that an act, which, according to the principles and theory of our government, is entirely void; is yet, in practice, completely obligatory. It would declare, that if the legislature shall do what is expressly forbidden, such act, notwithstanding the express prohibition, is in reality effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It is prescribing limits, and declaring that those limits may be passed at pleasure." Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, 179 (1803).

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"Could it be the intention of those who gave this power, to say that, in using it, the constitution should not be looked into? That a case arising under the constitution should be decided without examining the instrument under which it arises?

This is too extravagant to be maintained.

In some cases then, the constitution must be looked into by the judges. And if they can open it at all, what part of it are they forbidden to read, or to obey?" Ok, so someone failed to read Intro to US government." Id., at 179.

So someone didn't read about Marbury v. Madison in Intro to US government. If law putting "under God" in the Pledge is "repugnant" to the Constitution, SCOTUS and any other Federal Court can still decide that it is not Constitutional. This leads us to directly...

WHY THIS BILL IS BULL SHIT, PART II.

Wedge issue. Make people think you're fighting God's fight and the other's are doing the devil's work. Very convenient and simplistic for simplistic minds.