Obituaries
Mar. 15, 2023
Judge Alfred Theodore “Ted” Goodwin, 1923–2022
Ruled schools could not require ‘under God’ in Pledge
Ninth Circuit Judge Alfred T. Goodwin in San Francisco. Daily Journal photo
Federal appeals court Judge Alfred Theodore “Ted” Goodwin didn’t always have great timing.
A few months after 9/11, he wrote an opinion for a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the phrase “one nation under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional.
But like President Nixon, the man who put him on the 9th Circuit, Goodwin was complicated.
“In spite of all h...
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