{"id":15,"date":"2009-05-29T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/madison-us-judge-refuses-to-dismiss-day-of-prayer-suit.html"},"modified":"2009-05-29T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T13:56:00","slug":"madison-us-judge-refuses-to-dismiss-day-of-prayer-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/madison-us-judge-refuses-to-dismiss-day-of-prayer-suit.html","title":{"rendered":"Madison: US judge refuses to dismiss &#8216;Day of Prayer&#8217; suit"},"content":{"rendered":"Date: 5\/29\/2009<br \/><br \/>MADISON, Wis. (AP) \u2014 A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit that claims the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional.<br \/><br \/>U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb ruled this week the case brought by the Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation can move forward with discovery.<br \/><br \/>A federal law sets the first Thursday in May as the day for presidents to issue proclamations asking Americans to pray.<br \/><br \/>Crabb says the nation&#8217;s largest group of atheists and agnostics faces a heavy burden in proving the tradition violates the separation of church and state. But she says it should have an opportunity to do so.<br \/><br \/>The Obama administration and National Day of Prayer Task Force filed motions to dismiss the case, but Crabb rejected them as premature.<br \/><br \/>Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 5\/29\/2009MADISON, Wis. (AP) \u2014 A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit that claims the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional.U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb ruled this week the case brought by the Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation can move forward with discovery.A federal law sets the first Thursday in May as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,44,43,48,46,47],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-freedom-from-religion","tag-separation-of-church-and-state","tag-wisconsin-court","tag-wisconsin-court-news","tag-wisconsin-federal-court","tag-wisconsin-legal-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}