John E. Jones III
John E. Jones III is an activist federal judge notable for ruling that intelligent design is another name for creationism in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many One such case, the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, was brought by the parents of 11 students from the Dover school district to remove intelligent design from district classrooms. Jones ruled that it should be removed, and this has sparked a controversy. Ann Coulter called Judge Jones a "hack."Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too manyCite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[1][2] The Discovery Institute states that Judge Jones followed the ACLU and ignored contrary facts.[3]
After the trial, Judge Jones ordered the school district to pay over $2 million in legal fees to the ACLU's side. The case was not appealed for political reasons, so it is not known whether the opinion would have survived appeal.
Jones later made statements suggesting that he knew that he had engaged in judicial activism in the case.[4]
Dickinson College Commencement Address
In December 2006, a Discovery Institute blogger suggested that Judge Jones plagiarized a scholar's book in his Dickinson College commencement speech and gave a comparison of the speech and the scholar's work.[5] The source is currently acknowledged in the online published text of the speech.[6]
References
- ↑ Luskin, Casey (January 26, 2007) A Response to Darwinist Defenders of Judge Jones' Copying from the ACLU Evolution News
- ↑ Judge Jones even copied a misspelling of Antony Flew [1]
- ↑ Crowther, Robert (December 21, 2005)Judge Jones Follows ACLU, Ignores Contrary Facts Evolution News
- ↑ http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/11/judge_jones_admits_the_activis.html
- ↑ Did Judge Jones Plagiarize Scholar's Book in Dickinson College Commencement Speech? (Robert Crowther, 2006)
- ↑ Judge John E. Jones, Commencement Address (Dickinson College, May 19-21, 2006). Accessed April 21, 2007.