Source: ACLU Press Release

http://www.aclu.org/ReligiousLiberty/ReligiousLiberty.cfm?ID=16452&c=29

On September 15, 2004 the ACLU Press Release reported, "as the House Judiciary Committee approved a controversial court stripping measure, the American Civil Liberties Union today urged lawmakers to reject this deeply misguided proposal. The legislation would strip jurisdiction from all federal courts in any First Amendment case involving the Pledge of Allegiance and is the latest of several similar court stripping measures... The bill, H.R.2028, the 'Pledge Protection Act of 2003,' would forbid all federal courts from reviewing cases involving the Pledge of Allegiance. The committee adopted it by a vote of 17 to 10 after accepting changes that would also forbid the Supreme Court from considering pledge cases... Passage of any of these measures, the ACLU said, would establish a dangerous precedent for Congress to respond to court decisions with which they disagree."