What other info do you have?Thanks for the post but I should have recognized that name.
There were a series of jokes on the same theme when he was appointed.
He is an inspiration on other levels.
At first, pro-lifer's were hopeful that "with Casey at the bat" the Congressional ban against partial-birth abortions would stand. In one of his interrogations he actually asked if the baby (not fetus) felt pain while it was being snuffed. Casey is Catholic. Here he is getting a medal from the Pope in 1999:
However, eventually it was the pro-aboritionist's that were rejoicing:
U.S. Court in New York Rejects Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
August 27, 2004 By JULIA PRESTON
A federal judge in New York ruled yesterday that a federal law banning a rarely used method of abortion was unconstitutional because it did not exempt cases where the procedure might be necessary to protect a woman's health.
The ruling, by Judge Richard Conway Casey, came in a challenge brought by the National Abortion Federation and seven doctors to a November 2003 law that bans the method known as partial-birth abortion.
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... "This is a great day for women's health, because it means the Constitution holds that doctors will treat women's health and not Congress," said Talcott Camp, an A.C.L.U. lawyer in the case.