US House of Rep. in an Extraordinary
Sunday night Session [Schiavo]
(Bush Signs Schiavo bill) 203 to 58Well, it's passed and signed into law now.
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Posted on 03/20/2005 6:03:40 PM PST by FoxPro
This is an unprecedented session. The Congress is meeting to save one persons life (in real time).
The only reason the Democrats are agreeing to this is that they don’t want to be known as the party that killed Terri.
This is American history happening before your eyes.
Why the term "precedent" in this case? I was under the impression that legislative bodies are there to make law. Shouldn't concern about "setting precedent" only be relevant to judicial bodies.
Thank you for the ping.
Good Lord: please help her live long enough! Please!
US House of Rep. in an Extraordinary
Sunday night Session [Schiavo]
(Bush Signs Schiavo bill) 203 to 58Well, it's passed and signed into law now.
Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.
Amen.
"Why the term "precedent" in this case? I was under the impression that legislative bodies are there to make law. Shouldn't concern about "setting precedent" only be relevant to judicial bodies"
Yes! Aren't we supposed to be able to go to our elected Representatives and Senators with problems, and if legislation is needed, they write it? And we are supposed to go to the judge and have them know what laws are available, and apply them to our case?
At the time that Terri entered her present state of severe disability, Florida law did not define providing food and water as "extraordinary measures." The law was changed in 1999.
Thus, your argument is not only factually correct, but legally correct. There is no reason to believe, factually OR legally, that she would have consented to removal of food and water.
Unconstitutional? Don't quit your day job.
The 5th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution provide that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law.
This bill gives the parents the power to initiate a brand new lawsuit in order to ensure that their daughter is not deprived of life without due process of law.
De novo means, in this case, a new record.
BTTT!!!!!!!
hmmm....won't accept email or faxes....maybe his donors would..along with an explanation and request for them to forward such to their man.....
It was surreal. I've never seen anything like it in my life.Cannot believe what came out of the mouths of some of those House Dems.
There was suggestion posted here that we look up the address of his Broward county office and use the zip code from that!
He can still be Freeped!
Who says it doesn't matter having a Republican Congress?
AHHHH. And they are a bit . . . atny trigger happy, as I recall.
What now?
Ahhh. Thanks.
Aaaaaarrrrrggghhh. I C.
What is the Scientology schtick about wanting Terri dead. What is their thing about it? Their doctrine or interest?
I could throw in a few jabs their dicretion in my question but I'll restrain myself.
Feel free to answer by FREEPMAIL if you wish.
What insanity!
We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that amon these are the right to life...
'nuff said.
We need some case law here.
BTW, toward the end of the Civil War all of these Souvrn' courts got disestablished. In fact, one of my GGGrandfathers got to set the torch to many of them.
Seems to me there's some pretty heady precedents in that!
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