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May 6, 2014

In Landmark Decision, Supreme Court Strikes Down Main Reason Country Was Started

Posted by Andy Borowitz

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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — In what legal experts are calling a landmark decision, on Monday the United States Supreme Court struck down what many believe to be the main reason the country was started.
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By a five-to-four vote, the Court eliminated what grade-school children have traditionally been taught was one of the key rationales for founding the United States in the first place.
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“The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years,” said Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority. “Getting rid of it was long overdue.”
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Calling the decision “historic,” Justice Antonin Scalia was guarded in predicting what the Court might accomplish next.
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“Last year, we gutted the Voting Rights Act, and today we did the First Amendment,” he said. “We’ll just have to see what’s left.