Friday, June 14 2013 10:12 AM EDT2013-06-14 14:12:26 GMT
A $500 fine and up to a year in jail, that's what the 14-year-old who was arrested after refusing to change his NRA shirt could face, following his arraignment today.
A $500 fine and up to a year in jail, that's the penalty that 14-year-old Jared Marcum, who was arrested after refusing to change his NRA shirt, could face, now that a judge has allowed the prosecution to move forward with it's obstructing an officer charge against him.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a challenge to a reference to "Almighty God" in Kentucky's homeland security law.
The high court on Monday rejected the case without comment.
The order came seven months after the Kentucky Supreme Court made a similar decision in a lawsuit brought by the group American Athiests.
The plaintiffs had claimed in a 2008 suit that the law was a violation of constitutional bans on state-sponsored religion.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals upheld the law and said the reference is made to "a generic 'God'" and doesn't "seek to prefer one belief over another."
The controversy arose because of two related laws passed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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