[Avoiding_Sulla]

Dear Governor Bush,

My second reason to thank you for your actions is that your actions combined with the legislature reminds us of something I think too many people have forgotten.

That the judiciary, our most autocratic and least responsive branch of government, retains its relative independence based upon our tolerance.

When the courts venture outside the areas which concern the public most, they become ripe to be checked in their excess.

You, sir, have accomplished something this week which has not been done in my memory; something I pray will have a rippling effect well past the borders of your great state.

I believe that the courts of our great land are way out of bounds with the thinking of a vast number of Americans. I pray that what you did today -- checked the excesses of our courts in condemning an innocent person to death -- will only be the beginning in checking the excesses of courts where the sense of the people can be rallied as in this case.

Thank you for showing us that the courts CAN STILL BE CHECKED.

Sincerely,

-Avoiding Sulla

When the law is in violation of common human decency -- the overriding principle standard demanded at Nuremburg -- the law is inherently wrong and wise prejudice demands that it be defied.

Keep God in the discussion -- keep God in the equation -- and you keep the American republic.

[MarMema]

Big thank you bump for a governor showing compassion and love for the "least of these".

[EternalVigilance]

Excellent posts; both of them.

It is far past time for us to take steps to reign in the judiciary.

Those steps are clearly within the purview of the Congress, as spelled out in Article 3 of the Constitution.

[DLfromthedesert]

This is a great post. Thank you.

I saw Judge Napolitano on FOXNEWS and he was livid about this because he thought the governor and legislature overstepped their bounds; that once a court rules, the way to go is to appeal to a higher court. Great, but that might be a nicety Terri couldn't afford to wait for.

Napo thinks that it will be appealed by the "husband"'s lawyers to the FLA Supreme Court, where the feeding tube will then be ordered to be removed again.

If that happens, what, in your opinion, should be the next step for Terri?