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The Bush Record on Appeals Court Appointments & Presidential Pardons

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Today's New York Times reports, "Appeals Courts Pushed to Right by Bush Choices."  It's written by Charlie Savage and contains several graphics.  Here's an extended excerpt from the beginning of this lengthy report:After a group of doctors challenged a South Dakota law forcing them to inform women that abortions ?terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique living human being? ? using exactly that language ? President Bush?s appointees to the federal appeals courts took control. A federal trial judge, stating that whether a fetus is human life is a matter of debate, had blocked the state from enforcing the 2005 law as a likely violation of doctors? First Amendment rights. And an appeals court panel had upheld the injunction...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 29, 2008 (boomark / email).