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Liberal judges ... or not so much?
Posted Aug 24, 2010 by Tom Jackson
Updated Aug 24, 2010 at 09:49 AM
I cannot quantify how much hang-wringing was expended over insidious liberal judicial activism as a result of last week’s decision by a federal judge who tossed most of the Army Corps of Engineers development permit for Cypress Creek Town Center. But I am certain there was at least some. But before my friends on the right climb too far out on a limb in condemnation of federal judges ruling regally and leftestly from the perches of their lifetime appointments, consider what came down from the same D.C. circuit Monday.
From Tuesday’s Washington Post:
A federal judge on Monday blocked the Obama administration from funding human embryonic stem cell research, ruling that the support violates a federal law barring the use of taxpayer money for experiments that destroy human embryos. ...
[A] preliminary injunction ... prohibits the National Institutes of Health from funding the research under the administration’s new guidelines, citing an appeals court’s ruling that the researchers who had challenged the less-restrictive policy have the legal standing to pursue their lawsuit.
The decision, a setback for one of the administration’s most high-profile scientific policies, was praised by opponents of the research.
“We are encouraged that the court has recognized the seriousness of the ethics and the funding of embryonic stem cell research,” said David Prentice, senior fellow for life sciences at the Family Research Council.
The ruling stunned scientists and other advocates of the research, which has been hailed as one of the most important advances in medicine in decades because of its potential to cure many diseases but has been embroiled in controversy because the cells are obtained by destroying days-old embryos.
The conservative hack activist judge blocking NIH’s destruction of embryos on behalf of wacky pro-life extremists? Royce C. Lamberth, the same liberal hack activist judge who, doing the bidding of wacky environmentalist extremists, sent the Richard E. Jacobs Group back to the drawing board last week.
So there you go.
[Updated Aug. 24, 10:48 a.m.]
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Por (TrilbyMan) on August 25, 2010 (Suggest removal)
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