(CNSNews.com) - With some Democrats in Congress worrying about the precedent setting potential of a new law aimed at sparing the life of Terri Schindler Schiavo, a former Supreme Court nominee told Cybercast News Service Monday that such congressional intervention was not so unusual.
Robert Bork, a Reagan administration nominee whom the U.S. Senate refused to confirm, called the federal legislation signed by President Bush early Monday morning something that "happens with some regularity."
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Am I the only one who sees a difference between an individual filing a writ of habeas corpus with the Federal courts and Congress intruding jursidiction of the Fedral courts on the states? Well, apparently at least Charles Krauthammer sees the difference as well.
I'll say this a different way: If you use the activist, liberal interpretation of the fourteenth amendment and combine it with Article III, you end up with a potent precedent that will come back to haunt us. In fact, at this point, given this action, we might as well disband the state courts now. What useful purpose do they serve? After that, how big a step is it to decide that the state legislatures are redundant and inefficient? Let's get rid of them as well.