Posted on 03/24/2005 10:05:14 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
...The Schiavo case puts the chief justice to an exquisite test. If there is one principle Rehnquist has spoken for forcefully in his years on the court, it is federalism. And, in particular, it is the right of the 50 sovereign states to be free of interference by the U.S. Congress. For four decades in the middle of the last century, the Supreme Court didn't reject a single act of Congress on the grounds that the national legislature lacked the power in our federal system. Rehnquist, as justice and then as chief, led the charge to revive the notion of sovereign states and a federal government of limited powers.
...Rehnquist was a lifelong Republican appointed to the court and then promoted to chief by Republican presidents. He has not disappointed them in his rulings and reasoning. In what may be his grand finale, though, his party loyalty and his judicial principles dictate opposite results...
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I feel for Rehnquist and his illness. Does he realize that a lot of throat cancer patients require feeding tubes? Does he realize the left would then call for his death. I know you cannot base personal feelings on a court decision. But, it makes you think.
They are not free from interference on issues DIRECTLY addressed by the U.S. Constitution. No state shall deprive a citizen of LIFE, liberty or property without due process of law. Liberals use that to mean that the federal courts can rule on pornography, sodomy, abortion and many other things not mentioned -- liberty being defined as license. Life is CLEARLY mentioned, but somehow they can't see that it applies.
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