Please show where this happened.
"You may choose which it is, based on how charitable you're feeling today."
False dichotomy but I guess we know how charitable you feel today. ;-)
"However, pretending that this is somehow unusual or unexpected is either gross ignorance of the law or an outright lie."
Please show where this happened.
Sigh. I really wish you'd read the article before posting.
"Judge Jones's decision wasn't a masterpiece of scholarship. It was a masterpiece of cut-and-paste," said the Discovery Institute's John West in a phone conference with reporters yesterday.
West is vice president for public policy and legal affairs for the group's Center for Science and Culture, which issued a statement saying, "The finding that most of Judge Jones' analysis of intelligent design was apparently not the product of his own original deliberative activity seriously undercuts the credibility of Judge Jones' examination of the scientific validity of intelligent design."
What Judge Jones did was standard legal practice, and West ought to know that. If Jones had ruled for the Dover school board, then the opinion would have been constructed out of the Dover lawyers' arguments.