>>...right for the state and Congress to try to usurp the courts.
Usurp?? The Florida constitution requires state government to protect citizens. If anybody usurped authority, it was the Greer court preventing Terri's family from making PRIVATE medical decisions.
>> [Terri]...who died last year...
Wrong verb. She wasn't dying and didn't die on her own. She was put to death by judicial order, surrounded by police to make sure nobody saved her from execution.
>> ...following an epic legal battle over whether she should be kept alive artificially.
Food and drink are not artificial sustenance. Neither was Greer's decision based on withdrawing "artificial" life support. It was based on Terri's own (non-existent) "wish" to refuse MEDICAL treatment.
>> ...the ruling of the many courts that heard the case was...
One court heard the case, not "many." Cases are seldom tried in more than one court.
A good friend told me tongue in cheek that you never tell your wife, "I dropped your expensive crystal vase on the floor." You always say "It fell". Always make it impersonal to get off the hook.
Good points.