A federal court turned aside the tide of Creationism, and ruled instead that Intelligent Design has no place in biology classrooms in public schools.
MSNBC writes:
Dover Area School Board members violated the Constitution when they ordered that its biology curriculum must include the notion that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III said.
Judge John E. Jones III was appointed to his current seat on the Middle District of Pennsylvania by President George W. Bush in 2002, after having been appointed to the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board by Gov. Tom Ridge in 1995. While not making him attack-proof to Conservatives, it certainly should provide him with some level of protection from them.