GOVERNOR ASKS THAT JUDGE IN RIGHT-TO-DIE CASE BE DISQUALFIED (Judge Baird)

Associated Press ^ | 11/21/03 | AP

[nicmarlo]

Clearwater, Florida-AP -- Another legal wrinkle involving Terri Schiavo (SHY'-voh), the severely brain-damaged woman at the center of a Florida right-to-die case.

Governor Jeb Bush is asking an appeals court to disqualify a judge in the case, saying he's biased.

The judge, W. Douglas Baird, refused to take himself off the case yesterday.

Baird is presiding over a challenge to a hastily-passed law that allowed Bush to order Schiavo's feeding tubes reinserted. At a hearing last week, Baird said the new law intruded on Schiavo's privacy rights and was "presumptively unconstitutional."

Schiavo's husband, Michael, says his wife never wanted to kept alive by artificial means. Her parents contend she can respond to treatment, but doctors and courts say she is in a persistent vegetative state.

[nicmarlo]

PING!!!

[You Gotta Be Kidding Me]

I think Judge Baird needs an IRS audit and cavity search......right around the time his family sits down for Thanksgiving dinner.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Get this activist judge outta there...

Kudos to Bush for going on the offensive.

[nicmarlo]

Ping!!

[nickcarraway]

BUMP

[nicmarlo]

Ping

[nicmarlo]

LOL!

[nicmarlo]

That's more than worth seeing again! Kudos to Bush

[livius]

Getting Baird off this case would be a big plus. He is clearly biased and clearly has an ideological position that he is determined to assert. A truly disinterested judge would, after all of this time and all of these questions, have recused himself and passed it to someone else. But he's afraid to let it go, lest it not turn out the way he believes it should.

[presidio9]

Pat Buchanan's thoughts

[Ann Archy]

Prayers for Terri and Jeb.

[You Gotta Be Kidding Me]

"LOL!"

Have your camcorder charged up and ready to go. Mine is!! I'll be there to tape the whole thing.

[nicmarlo]

Ping (sorry if I got anybody twice).

[tessalu]

This judge does not belong on the bench of any court room in the United States, and he needs to be removed.

[I still care]

Disn't Scalia take himself off the pledge case for much less, throwing the case into real doubt? He took a principled stand, a;though it might cost the case.

I hate dishonest judges. Not even suicide bombers can do the damage a judge with an agenda can.

[secret garden]

They need that judge we had in FL during the vote counting debaucle. Norman something or other. Now there was a judge.

[livius]

Yes, but I guess people who have the ACLU on their side don't have to have principles.

Frankly, I wonder that the trial is even still in Pinellas Park. One of the problems is that it's an area where anybody who is anybody has been involved with that "hospice," which is perceived as a sort of social cause for the well-to-do. To my mind, it would be very hard to find somebody who wasn't biased. Most of them probably wouldn't flaunt it the way Baird does, though.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Bush is making alot of noise over this case. I wonder why? sarcasm Good job Jeb!

[pollywog]

what are the chances that Baird will be removed from the case by the appeals court?