ClydeR
10-07-2010, 11:38 AM
Wednesday, Chancellor Talmadge Littlejohn sent the 49-year-old Oxford attorney there for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in court.
Littlejohn urged Lampley to reconsider repeating the Pledge, as every other person in the judge's courtroom did as the day's proceedings began.
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If everybody had to do it, then I don't see what basis the attorney has to complain. Why should he get special rights? And before you liberals get upset, let's remember that this guy is an attorney. He's supposed to be enforcing the laws, which are -- you know -- established under the authority of the republic for which the flag stands.
David Hudson Jr., a scholar at the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, said forcing Lampley to repeat the pledge is clearly a violation of his free-speech rights.
"I've never heard of a judge jailing a lawyer over this," he said Wednesday.
Lampley is no stranger to controversy. Years ago, he represented a Pontotoc woman who objected to student-led intercom prayer and Bible history classes taught at North Pontotoc Attendance Center. U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers agreed the activities were unconstitutional.
Littlejohn urged Lampley to reconsider repeating the Pledge, as every other person in the judge's courtroom did as the day's proceedings began.
More... (http://nems360.com/view/full_story/9809352/article-Silence-during-pledge-earns-jail-time-for-attorney?)
If everybody had to do it, then I don't see what basis the attorney has to complain. Why should he get special rights? And before you liberals get upset, let's remember that this guy is an attorney. He's supposed to be enforcing the laws, which are -- you know -- established under the authority of the republic for which the flag stands.
David Hudson Jr., a scholar at the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, said forcing Lampley to repeat the pledge is clearly a violation of his free-speech rights.
"I've never heard of a judge jailing a lawyer over this," he said Wednesday.
Lampley is no stranger to controversy. Years ago, he represented a Pontotoc woman who objected to student-led intercom prayer and Bible history classes taught at North Pontotoc Attendance Center. U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers agreed the activities were unconstitutional.