Remarks in speech leave Scalia out of high court religion case

Monday, October 20, 2003

WASHINGTON -- Justice Antonin Scalia has taken himself out of the Supreme Court's review of whether "under God" should be in the Pledge of Allegiance. With a Ten Commandments dispute awaiting the court, some people would like to see Scalia sidelined from that and other church-state cases, too.

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