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Hugh Hewitt responded to several calls yesterday by saying that the President has no power to act on behalf of Terri Schiavo contrary to court orders. He characterized the Schiavo case as an injustice like Dred Scot and Plessy that we just have to live with. """""

Then it appears Hugh is not familiar with Lincon's comments on the Dredd Scott decision - - Lincoln said it wasn't binding beyond the particular parties, and the other branches of government could not allow the court to be the final exclusive arbiter of the constitution's meaning.

Google "Lincoln" and "Dred Scott" and you'll find his remarks

Hugh won't acknowledge that the constitutional crisis here is precipitated by Judge Greer's assumption of extra-judicial authority - HE's the one violating separation of powers, commandeering cops to repel a state agency (Florida DCF) and state police - and thumbing nose at congressional subpeonas. For elected officials like Jeb to lie down and take it, is not to do their own duty to defend their constitutional prerogatives. Greer has engineered a coup. Why should Jeb allow him to get away with it?

You're right in principle. I wouldn't want to defy a judge, period. I don't like it. Plenty of times where judges made bad decisions that were cried out against yet we have stood by and accepted them.. Why? Because of the presuption of rule of law. This is not rule of law, Judge Greer is making up the rules AS HE GOES ALONG. The idea of having an honest broker be thumbed nose at and told to fly a kite is morally repugnant to me in normal proper circumstances. But these are not normal circumstances, and he is not an honest broker. He has showed himself to be a hack for Michael Schiavo, and not only that has many a conflict of interest. Even if MS was pure as the driven snow the cozy relationship Greer and Felos has would be enough to want this totally vacated and have a de novo hearing, but there is nothing culpa settig about MS. But this guy is making himself king and declaring this that and the other thing, including stuff defined as outside his purview, illegal, to the paralysis of other political insitutions from intervening. That tilts the balance. We're talking about checks and balances being UPSET in favor of judges. Action by Bush or mob action would be merely to RESTORE THE BALANCE, if nothing else in this particular matter.