You did not bother to read what I had to say! At the Federal level starting with the District Judge the family's attorneys made the WRONG pleading. The District Judge gave her attorneys a roadmap to follow in their appeal to the 11th Circuit and they did not use that roadmap. The dissenting judge at the 11th Circuit provided more ammo for their appeal to the full 11th Circuit which the attorneys ignored not to mention it took them TEN hours to make that appeal. Then in their appeal to the SCOTUS, the legal expert of Fox News, Steve Centani (sp) who is very good said he found mistakes in their pleading to the SCOTUS.
Now you blame the Federal Judges who for years we have asked not to be judicial activists for ruling beyond what they were given?
Give me a break -- go look at her attorneys and who is pulling their strings -- less face time on TV and on talk radio and asking for help from some legal beagles would have served her much better IMHO.
Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic? Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a point when one must take a
position that is neither safe, nor polite, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.
-- Martin Luther King,Jr. -
That should guide very decision made by our leaders...be they elected or judicial.