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In Pledge Case, Passing the Test (washingtonpost.com): "'Do we know what the vote was in Congress . . . to adopt the 'under God' phrase?' Rehnquist asked, feigning ignorance of the fact that it passed unopposed in 1954.
When Newdow acknowledged as much, the chief justice pounced: 'Well, that doesn't sound divisive.'
But Newdow would not be ambushed. 'That's only because no atheist can get elected to public office,' he countered, evoking spontaneous laughter and a sound rarely, if ever, heard at oral argument in Rehnquist's tightly run courtroom -- applause. "