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Politics : The Supreme Court, All Right or All Wrong? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (409)	8/11/2005 11:11:56 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3029

Lies from the far-left The Washington Times ^ \| August 11, 2005 \| TODAY'S EDITORIAL 'We're not suggesting that [Supreme Court nominee John Roberts] condones clinic violence," said NARAL Pro-Choice America President Nancy Keenan recently. But that's exactly what NARAL's new television ad attacking Judge Roberts does. ----------------break------------------ As for the ad, it focuses on Emily Lyons, who was injured when Eric Rudolph bombed an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., in 1998. Says Mrs. Lyons, "When a bomb ripped through my clinic, I almost lost my life." The announcer then says, "Supreme Court nominee John Roberts filed court briefs supporting violent fringe groups and a convicted clinic bomber." The "court briefs" in question is an amicus brief Judge Roberts helped draft in 1991 -- seven years before the Birmingham bombing -- on behalf of the Justice Department in the case Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic. The case was a civil lawsuit brought by abortion clinics against protesters who were blockading the clinics. The abortion clinics argued that the protesters were violating an 1871 anti-discrimination law originally used against the Ku Klux Klan. ---------break NARAL, of course, argues that the above evidence is just "far-right spin." Yet the analysis of the ad comes from the non-partisan Annenberg Political Fact Check (Factcheck.org), which is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Its conclusion? "The ad is false." (Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...