The Conservative Circuit-Court Conspiracy

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet

Posted on June 8, 2005, Printed on June 8, 2005
http://www.alternet.org/story/22177/

Last Friday, a three-member panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals -- one of the country's most conservative circuits -- upheld a ruling that Virginia's so-called "partial-birth" abortion ban is unconstitutional.

It was not the first time that such legislation -- a sop to social conservatives -- has run into trouble with the judiciary; courts in California, Nebraska and New York have made the same findings about the federal PBA ban passed by George W. Bush in 2003.