What the hell was he thinking?

I don’t know what the lawyer for the ACLU was thinking, but he really screwed up during the appeal.

Marietta sole practitioner Michael Eric Manely, who represented the sticker challengers at trial but was dismissed shortly after the school board filed its appeal, took issue with Bramlett’s performance.

He said that when the judges raised the petition question, Bramlett should have “knocked that one out of the park,” pointing out that newspapers reported on the original petition before the stickers ever were created.

Manely, who attended the arguments, said Bramlett should have rebutted Carnes’ assertion that the sticker was “factually accurate.”

“We spent half of our case proving that evolution is a scientific fact,” said Manely.

“Why did the appellate counsel jettison that argument?” he asked.

Bramlett said he had no intention of arguing with the judges’ assertions that the stickers were accurate.

“Getting into a swearing contest with a judge is not going to advance the case very far,” he said with a laugh. “If that’s what Judge Carnes thinks, I’m sure he’ll deal with it in his opinion.”

(Facts Still in Dispute in Evolution Sticker Case)