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Article: Judge grudge: religious right rabble-rousers are preaching impeachment to try to force courts to rule their way.
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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U.S. Appellate Court Judge Stanley F. Birch Jr. would seem an unlikely target for right-wing wrath.
Never tagged as a liberal, Birch was placed on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals by President George H.W. Bush in 1990. The Knight-Ridder news service recently called Birch, a former Army lieutenant who served during Vietnam, "one of the most conservative" judges on the federal bench.
Despite these conservative bona tides, Birch is a public enemy to the Religious Right these days because he committed an unpardonable sin: During the legal imbroglio over Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman in a persistent vegetative state whose husband sought to have her ...