Responses to Dover Decision

You only have to visit the ID-friendly sites to see that there is much displeasure with the decision by Judge Jones in the Kitzmiller v Dover case. Over at the Panda's Thumb, various people have responded to often uncivil and frequently legally misinformed commentary by the likes of John West (also see here, here, here), Phyllis Schaffly, Joseph Kippenberg, Albert Alschuler, and others. Throughout all of this, the following comment by "improvious" is particularly trenchant:

Just out of curiosity - is there anyone at all out there who is basing their argument against the judge's decision on the trial transcripts? I mean, that's where you'd have to make any substantial complaint, right? You'd have to dig through the transcripts, and determine that the judge misinterpreted something, you know, from the actual trial. But so far, all I've seen are references to the ruling itself being supposedly incorrect, without any supporting evidence from the trial itself.

Troy Britain notes:

This relates to one of my motivations for starting the McLean vs. Arkansas Documentation Project.

Several times over the years I got into debates with creationists where the McLean trial came up and the creationist would imply that the trial had been unfair, or that the judge in the case had been biased.

So I thought the trial transcripts should settle the question (unfortunately it turned out getting the transcripts wasn't so easy).