Some folks here, do not understand that the people are sovereign and their authority flows through the Legislative and Executive branches of our government(s).
The courts do not have the final word on anything that is not approved by the laws made so, through the democratic-republican process respecting that flow of authority.
The Congress of the United States has entirely the power to set the jurisdiction for the U.S. Supreme Court, not to mention that the Congress can remove any or all of the Justices.
The same power of the Legislative branch is that of each state's.
Now, certainly their are judges who are legends in their own minds. Most of that is because their legal proceedings are very much formal and traditional, to lend to the matters before them and all, the seriousness of the tasks they undertake. There is much pomp and circumstance.
As the lights shine upon Dan Rather and Peter Jennings, the limelight at court cannot help but puff up the vulnerable; that is, the ego-inclined are ready candidates for believing themselves to be the law makers.
When they most certainly are not; and, under penalty of starting up an American Revolution all over again. Liberty, our sovereignty, will not be given up by court order, to put it so mildly it is impossible to even qualify the importance of this field.
I don't happen to think that there's any need to visit there, other than in respect of what our forefathers and mothers endured, so that we may be blessed by limited government.
Which is all the rigorous review of what is really, quite beautifully simple: Our governments' agents are all public servants. We, not they, proscribe through our laws made in the House and Senate of our Legislative branches and signed by the Chief Executive(s), what laws we will live by, and how the judges shall practice at the bar, in addition to where judges are limited right down to the number of times that they use the gavel.
This present contest of wills, is one half because Michael Schiavo is probably a lier who has tried to kill his wife, and the other half is because judges have themselves confused with the fabrications they wring from extra-Constitutional space.
There is nothing worse, in its effects, than a government agent who abuses their authorized powers, and especially exceeds them. In the case of a judge doing so, such a judge's transgressions against the men and women who have sacrificed much, is terrible ... and every good cop knows it, though I was also referring to those who have served well in our military.
Please, again, do not fret some of the Freepers who are bent on drugs, and they'll say anything so sweetly tasting of anarchy, to spoil the foundations of our peace, because they are unhappily impatient for some cause upon which to toss away self-discipline.