http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/03/1326895/-Judge-blasts-expert-witnesses-called-to-defend-Texas-anti-abortion-law?detail=email
An interesting tidbit about the Texas anti-abortion law that got struck down in part last week: The judge's disgust with how the state's "expert witnesses" conducted themselves. Specifically, that longtime anti-abortion crank and/or "consultant" and/or "expert witness" Vincent Rue had a large hand in how the other "expert witnesses" presented their cases:
[US District Judge Lee Yeakel] ultimately discarded the testimony of four expert witnesses because of Rue's "considerable editorial and discretionary control" over their written reports and testimony: James C. Anderson, the chair of Virginia Physicians for Life; Deborah Kitz, a health care consultant from Pennsylvania; Peter Uhlenberg, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; and Dr. Mayra Jimenez Thompson, an OB-GYN and University of Texas-Southwestern professor. Emails showed that that Rue sent Uhlenberg sources, "ideas," and "fact changes." In one message, Uhlenberg wrote, "I need your critical suggestions." Kitz wrote Rue an email that said, "Tried to use as much of your material as I could, but time ran out." Anderson testified that Rue was responsible for "wordsmithing" his report to the court. Rue has tapped Anderson as an expert witness in four other states that paid Anderson more than $110,000.you know for so many in their base that cheer them on for shooting them in their butts believe the rants the not so clever verbiage that no one buys but their base that somebody that votes republican would catch on and try and inform their fellow lemmings, but that never seems to happen lies misinformation stand even after the rational American electorate exposes them, are they that thick or hate filled? it's great to see courts are making some of the stink of elephant dung go away but is it real or just don't want their legacy besmirched for being on the wrong side.
So a judge is calling shenanigans on the whole cottage industry of faux-experts going to different states en masse in an organized effort to bend the law according to whatever a half-dozen people are willing to say in court in exchange for money. Well, at least this collection of people. This one time.
In addition to the witnesses collaborating as to what they were going to say, the state's attorneys made an apparent effort to hide that effort, with witnesses only admitting to the collaboration when the plaintiffs "refreshed their memories" with emails proving that it happened. That also earned the wrath of the judge, but hey—it's the Culture of Life, not the Culture of Not Lying Thine Ass Off.
they decry one size fits all when it came to ACA and other laws they want to send back to the states, well those red states would deny like they are doing with Medicaid and the other states get the outside agitators chorus all saying verbatim the same script of anti abortion.
