Byline: JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO -- Rebuffing the Bush administration, a federal appeals court Friday refused to reconsider its ruling that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional because of the words ``under God.''
The case could go next to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Attorney General John Ashcroft condemned the decision and said the Justice Department will ``spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.''
But he stopped short of saying the administration will appeal to the high court.
In June, a three-judge panel of the 9th …
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