Standing Ovation

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Michael Newdow, today you are my hero.

Dahlia Lithwick's recap of yesterday's oral arguments at the Supreme Court, linked above, offers the same opinion of Newdow's efforts yesterday as everyone else I've seen: he was amazing. A man who had never argued a case goes before the Supreme Court on his own behalf and elicits cheers and laughter from the gallery while showing up the Chief Justice and making observers believe he's right in a case where he's up against every politician and most of America? That's remarkable.

Whether he wins his case or not--and never underestimate the cowardice of the Supreme Court in making judgments that will stir up America, cases in 1954, 1973, and 2003 notwithstanding--Newdow has laid out a clear argument, and this will not end with him.