TheMissingLink
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| Quote (FishyFred @ Oct. 19 2005,20:40) | evopeach: How sure are you that the court is in your camp? Let's go down the list (and I'm making the assumption that Miers will be on the court if this gets there):
John Paul Stevens - Voted in the majority in Edwards v. Aguillard. A vote against Dover.
Antonin Scalia - Along with Rehnquist, dissented in Edwards v. Aguillard. You can probably consider his vote a vote for Dover, but I'm not 100% sure. Just... something. He'll probably vote for Dover.
That takes care of the justices who voted on Edwards v. Aguillard. Now lets take a look at the post-1987 justices.
John Roberts - Can't go either way on him yet.
Harriet Miers - I'm guessing she's on your side. If she isn't confirmed and O'Connor is in her place, you will not get this vote. She voted in the majority in Edwards v. Aguillard.
Anthony Kennedy - Slightly difficult to read, but he's tended toward the left. He'll vote against Dover.
David Souter - Not a chance in ####. He's voting against Dover.
Clarence Thomas - Arguable. I'm guessing he'd vote against Dover, but you can have his vote.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - A sure bet to vote against Dover.
Stephen Breyer - Also a sure bet against Dover.
Giving you the benefit of the doubt evopeach, you lose 5-4.
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Personally, I doubt Dover would do that well. But I don't think it will end up in the surpreme court anyway.
Of course, Dover is going to lose here - it's only a matter of how bad. The case is so weak that even the Discovery Institute pulled their witnesses when they heard about all the bible thumping that went on during board meetings. Behe has essentially made an idiot of himself - the gallery was openly laughing at him. And Astrology? Ha ha. And he's their STAR witness. So there's no way the ID guys are going to want to bring this stinking barge to Washington because nothing good can happen. More likely, we'll have to wait for a while until the ID guys find a better case. And the mathematical probably of that happening is like a protien chain... uh, nevermind...
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