Courtesy of Washington Watch:
For years, conservatives have argued that activist judges take their cues from the ACLU. Now there's evidence that courts are taking more than cues. Last year federal Judge John Jones issued a long, sweeping opinion striking down Dover, Pennsylvania's policy on teaching about the evolution and intelligent design controversy, has been accused of stealing actual pages from ACLU briefs. The Discovery Institute has announced that a large portion of Judge Jones's opinion was copied nearly verbatim from a document written by ACLU lawyers. A study released by the Institute's experts found that 90.9% of the 6,004-word “Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law” from the ACLU appeared in the ruling. The Institute found that Jones also reprinted a number of factual errors in his ruling that have since been retracted by the ACLU.
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