Note that the Thomas More Institute (or whatever its name is) shopped around the idea of instituting an "intelligent design" curriculum to many school boards. Dover is the one that agreed to test things for Thomas Moore. Tommy and Dover went into the situation looking for a trial; they got one. Unfortunately, the Dover witnesses were less than truthful (among other failings); one did adumbrate the Kennedy defense (lying because of drug addiction), but that didn't work in this case. Tommy and Dover lost.
School districts should be wary of law firms shopping curriculia to them.
It also came out at the trial that the school board's own attorney advised against their policy of pushing ID into the science classes, because it was likely to result in litigation. The school board was so crazed that they ignored their own lawyer's advice. But the Discovery Institute's post-trial spin doesn't mention uncomfortable details like that. To them, it's all an ACLU plot.
Some plot, considering that it was conceived and carried out by the Discovery Institute and that Thomas Moore law firm, with the eager cooperation of an idiotic school board. So it's all the ACLU's fault. This is one of the few times in living memory that the ACLU has been on the correct side of an issue. (I think they also filed a brief on behalf of Rush in his recent troubles.)
The only shame here is that the school board members aren't *personally* responsible for their lies.
They abused their public office to further stealth political goals, lying all the way. They should have to pay for it, not the taxpayers.
Thomas Moore started this nonsense. They should be financially liable as well, for the un-Constitutional scam they perpetuated with their willing Dover accomplises. Let's go after all the truly guilty parties.