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To: Ohioan
From one of your earilier posts, you speak out of ignorance when you say "letting someone die..."

The woman was not termnially ill. She was NOT dying until her feeding tube was REMOVED. Is this not a state sanctioned murder?

Are you saying through your comments that if the Congress believes that the Judiciary is seriously wrong that it cannot do what is within its powers to right it? That would mean that the will of the people or the "Government of the people, by the people" is a fallacy.

294 posted on 03/24/2005 1:24:03 PM PST by frogjerk
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To: frogjerk

We need the Ghost of Andrew Jackson to declare "Judge Greer has his writ... NOW LET'S SEE HIM ENFORCE IT!"


298 posted on 03/24/2005 1:26:36 PM PST by The Hollywood Conservative (I can't even make a tagline because I'm a GIANT IDIOT!!!)
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To: frogjerk
Are you saying through your comments that if the Congress believes that the Judiciary is seriously wrong that it cannot do what is within its powers to right it?

No. It has authority over the original jurisdiction of the Federal District Courts and the Appellate jurisdiction of the Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals. It also has jurisdiction over the Appellate--but not the Constitutionally delegated jurisdiction of the Federal Supreme Court. It could, any time it wanted, as I have pointed out, stop the Federal Courts from overturning State efforts to stop abortion on demand by a simple act, taking away the jurisdiction to hear such cases.

But it does not have such jurisdiction over the State Courts. And if you read the Declaration of Independence, you will see that the right to a local judiciary, independent of interference by a remote central authority, was one of the principles for which they fought.

328 posted on 03/24/2005 1:37:56 PM PST by Ohioan
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