Posted on 03/23/2005 7:00:19 PM PST by RWR8189
Washington, DC, Mar. 23 (UPI) -- House GOP leaders seeking one last chance to intervene in the case of a brain damaged Florida women filed a brief with the Supreme Court Wednesday.
The Roll Call newspaper reported that following Wednesday's rebuff of the efforts of Terri Schiavo's parents to have her feeding tube reinserted and case reviewed, Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois, Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas, and others filed a brief with the court similar to one filed with Atlanta's 11th Circuit prior to their ruling in the case.
The move comes after GOP lawmakers made the extraordinary move of pushing legislation through the House this past weekend allowing the Tampa women's parents to pursue their case in federal courts. That came after Florida state courts supported the right of Schiavo's husband to have her feeding tube removed after 15 years.
Nineteen Florida judges and six court appointed physicians have concluded
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Weak and very late. I'm afraid the damage to Terri very soon will be irreversible.
It's Michael Schiavo's "right to kill his wife".
Why won't anyone say this explicitly?
Hopefully someone on the inside is at least giving her water.
They are responsible for the runaway tyranny of the court system. They have allowed it, have done nothing to stop it.
We can no longer expect justice from our court system. We will just have to pick and choose which laws we will obey, other than that the law won't matter.
I would correct a point.
WE, the American people, have allowed the Judiciary to attain this power. WE accepted their judgements as law though clearly in violation of the Constitution. By not demanding a stop to this when they first seized power over a century ago, this cancer was allowed to spread. We are all culpable for the end result. Those that have long since died and those that live now.
Did anyone else hear the nurse on Hannity just say that Michael brought his new galpal into Terri's room?
Didn't Thomas Jefferson predict this?
Who cares? Life trumps your silly anti-immigrant agenda.
Have you read the First Things debate on disobeying immoral laws? I'm reading it now - it's 8 years old and UNBELIEVABLY PRESCIENT for these crazy times. I just happened to find it at a little local library - you all MUST read it--"The End of Democracy?: The Judicial Usurpation of Politics." by (Father) Richard John Neuhaus. I'm with you, dude. Jails don't smell very good, but it's chow time.
Isn't that just the ultimate slap in the face?
It makes me sick to say it, but it looks like the least important of the three branches has successfully usurped the other two, and thus has left us with no choice but to do just as you suggest. I'm old enough to no longer give a damn what happens to me, but the world will be poorer for the end of the last best hope.
Yes, indeed. As I've said on other posts, power is the opposite of weight - easy to lose, hard to gain back.
No there is a guard there to watch at all times and the parents are searched before they enter the room.
Yes, I did. It sounded like the girlfriend wasn't believing him when he told her of his current wife was "dying" so he brought her in to "prove it" to her.
PS: When you have little kids being arrested for trying to bring a dying woman a drink of water it's time to get radical.
"These are the times that trouble the souls of men."
OK somebody help me here. Where does the state of Florida get the power to stop a person from taking water and food orally?
In Ct, we call that murder.
Open the window and step away from the glue bottle...
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