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Schindlers' Options Dwindle to Hearing Tonight with Federal Judge (Motion DENIED)
AP ^ | March 24, 2005

Posted on 03/24/2005 4:45:17 PM PST by West Coast Conservative

A federal court hearing has started in one of the last effort attempts by Terri Schiavo's parents to restore their daughter's feeding tube.

But the judge already has turned down the parents once. Bob and Mary Schindler are asking for an emergency order to reinsert the feeding tube in the brain-damaged woman.

The hearing in Tampa is before U.S. District Judge James Whittemore. He turned the Schindlers down once, as did a federal appeals court and the Supreme Court. A state judge, a state appeals court and the Florida Supreme Court also have all come down on the side of the husband, who wants to let his wife die after 15 years in what some doctors call a vegetative state.

The latest defeat for the Schindlers was today when a state judge said he won't go along with Governor Jeb Bush's request to order the feeding tube reinserted. The governor had said that new allegations of abuse of Terri Schiavo need to be investigated. The governor also tried to challenged the diagnosis that Terri Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: florida; righttolife; schiavo; terri; terrischiavo; whittemore
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1 posted on 03/24/2005 4:45:18 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative
That should read Whittemore.
2 posted on 03/24/2005 4:45:50 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative

The American Judiciary - A murder of judges who will forever be defined in 2005 as a homosexual
eager-to-murder-the-innocent-and-helpless-by-starvation coven
ever-eager to also help terrorists, murderers and rapists attack American citizens.

HEALTHFUL DRINKS AND WARM MEALS SINCE THE ORDER-TO-MURDER-AN-INVALID BY JUDGE GREER
Murderer-At-Will Judge Greer 29
......................... Terri Shiavo 0
.......................... Lee Malvo 24
.......................... Scott Peterson 24

3 posted on 03/24/2005 4:49:01 PM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: West Coast Conservative; Admin Moderator

That should read Whittemore.

I passed it on to Admin to try and get if fixed before you get 1,000 posts telling you about the error, WCC. I foul up on the keyboard all the time, so I know the feeling.


4 posted on 03/24/2005 4:50:37 PM PST by AZ_Cowboy ("Be ever vigilant, for you know not when the master is coming")
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To: AZ_Cowboy

Thanks.


5 posted on 03/24/2005 4:51:29 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
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To: AZ_Cowboy

What is this one about?????


And the Civil Rights thing..what's going on with it????


6 posted on 03/24/2005 4:52:43 PM PST by freecopper01
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To: West Coast Conservative

I wish I could be optimistic about this, but this judge has turned them down before. So very sad.


7 posted on 03/24/2005 4:52:58 PM PST by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: West Coast Conservative
It doesn't look like any judge is going to come down in their favor.

Sad to say I think it is over for Terri.

Unless Jeb goes in with the State Police and takes her away I don't see where she is going to make it.

I don't think Jeb is willing to do this.

Just a matter of time now...sad.

8 posted on 03/24/2005 4:55:30 PM PST by PFKEY
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To: Diogenesis

What if Terri was black or homosexual?


9 posted on 03/24/2005 4:56:08 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite (Not everyone here is your FRiend, watch out for the "opinion shapers" (aka troll with an agenda))
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To: West Coast Conservative

It seems unlikely the judge will do anything other than what he and all the rest of the "legal" system have been doing - backing each other up. For the legal system, the issue is simple: Does the legal branch have superior authority over the legislative and executive branches? The only answer they will entertain is YES. While there are some judges who can read and follow the Constitution and have a conscience, the majority are only concerned with the supremacy of the legal branch.

There is no concern as to whether Terri Schiavo is being tortured in the process of murdering her. None whatsoever. Zero, Nada, Zip. There is no concern as to whether there is what is defined as a conspiracy to violate her civil rights or murder her. None whatsoever. Zero, Nada, Zip.

The issue here is clear: Does the legal branch have superior authority over the legislative and executive branches? The only answer they will entertain is YES.

There is no system of checks and balances in a government where the legal branch has no one to report to. Particularly when they turn their back on God and the Constitution.

Remember, there is no Justice in the Legal System, only legality.


10 posted on 03/24/2005 4:56:30 PM PST by Rodentking (http://www.airpower.blogspot.com/)
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To: West Coast Conservative
"The latest defeat for the Schindlers was today when a state judge said he won't go along..."

A state judge? It is the SAME state judge!!!

11 posted on 03/24/2005 4:57:22 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: MizSterious

As much as I like the Gov Bush, he is going to have a hard time of it.

If Terri dies.

Why?

Because for many, many people when he spoke as he did yesterday, he held out what may prove to be false hope.

It's false hope because the statutes say they can do what he refuses to do.

It's hard to watch when you see someone you thought would stand up, step aside.

I hope I am wrong.

I hope so much that I am wrong.


12 posted on 03/24/2005 4:58:02 PM PST by freecopper01
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To: Rodentking
Roger that. This week the Earth has moved and few have felt it.

We must replace Congress with people who have guts and brains.

13 posted on 03/24/2005 4:58:47 PM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: PFKEY

I was just reading where he said he wouldn't do that.

GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT.


14 posted on 03/24/2005 4:59:26 PM PST by freecopper01
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To: Stellar Dendrite
What if Terri was black or homosexual?

She'd be given a multi million dollar medical treatment allowance (tax payer paid), and a Constitutional Amendment to protect people like her at all costs.

15 posted on 03/24/2005 4:59:47 PM PST by concerned about politics (Vote Republican - Vote morally correct!)
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To: Diogenesis

Don't forget the ability to read at the sixth grade level.


16 posted on 03/24/2005 5:00:50 PM PST by Rodentking (http://www.airpower.blogspot.com/)
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To: freecopper01

In just a few days we will all decry here deatha and then sadly we will all move on and forget about Terri. Except for the occassional reference from time to time I suspect no one will really do anything to prevent this from occuring again.


17 posted on 03/24/2005 5:01:38 PM PST by PFKEY
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not that I want to hear from them, but I'm surprised Ironbutt and horseface (gore and kerry) haven't said anything about terri shiavo


18 posted on 03/24/2005 5:02:36 PM PST by KneelBeforeZod ( I'm going to open Cobra Kai dojos all over this valley!)
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To: PFKEY

I fear you are 100% right.


19 posted on 03/24/2005 5:02:58 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite (Not everyone here is your FRiend, watch out for the "opinion shapers" (aka troll with an agenda))
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To: freecopper01

I'm not really sure what this one's about. I think this might be a rehash of yesterday's news about the court saying they wouldn't let them reinsert the feeding tube, leaving the last option of the Governor requesting some sort of hearing.

I know that the Schindlers have taken the mater up from a Civil Rights angle at the SCOTUS. I don't know the status of that case, other than the petitioning for a case from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals goes through Justice Anthony Kennedy.

There are several end-run measures that might be a possibility that are in other threads. I think folks are hanging back to watch SCOTUS.


20 posted on 03/24/2005 5:03:10 PM PST by AZ_Cowboy ("Be ever vigilant, for you know not when the master is coming")
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