Activist Federal Judges Force Taxpayers to Subsidize Idaho ACLU

When will we dind politicians with the guts to stop this kind of judicial abuse?

The state of Idaho owes lawyers from the pro-abortion ACLU law firm $66,000 after failing to uphold a law requiring parental consent for abortions. In losing the lawsuit, the state was forced to pay for attorney fees for the pro-abortion firm, which represented the Planned Parenthood abortion business.

In total, the state of Idaho will have paid ACLU lawyers over $400,000 by the time all of the payments are complete.

During the lawsuit, federal District Court Judge Lynn Winmill enjoined the state from enforcing the parental consent law because of his concerns over the notification of parents in the event an abortion practitioner performed an emergency abortion on their child.

The effort to get a consent law on the books goes back to the 1998 session of the Idaho Legislature.

Idaho Gov. Butch Otter signed the third and final version of the parental consent measure into law in March 2007.

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