Posted on 04/05/2005 7:57:38 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
Umm, dude? Have you checked the news lately?
ooooops (dripping, angry sarcasm)
This has something to do with "time travel", right? ;-))
Lets remember come election time if the insurance companies donate to Jebs reelection. I find it puzzeling that no politition would come to Terry's rescue. Unless they were bought off with campaine donations.
Where's the usual "Jeb was only following the law" retorts?
btw, that's true only for people who buy into the relatively recent doctrine that only the judiciary knows what the law is.
According to the Supreme Court, he WASN'T legally obligated to save her. In fact, they claim he was legally obligated NOT to save her.
This is a statement of principle. There's going to be another "legal" murder again soon, so it's important to keep making the point. Maybe the governor of whatever state the next "legal" murder is in will fulfill his obligation to protect an innocent citizen from murder.
Actually, the Supreme Court declined to deal with the matter. Even if the Supreme Court HAD said what you say they said, they would be wrong. Unless you believe that the Supreme Court is God, which is the theory most popular among the Justices.
I find it puzzling that you could post such a silly claim given that approx. 400 politicians did come to her rescue. Perhaps if you looked a bit closer at the courts, you might find the source of your perplexity.
The US Supreme Court may have refused cert, but the Florida Supreme Court affirmed. They may be wrong, but it is they who were wrong, not Bush. Bush did everything he could have done to stop this. In a Constitutional dispute such as this between two branches of government, it is the third which generally breaks the impass. In the end, the legislature sided with the courts when it declined to pass new legislation after the Supreme Court struck down the old legislation. So the legislature broke the impass, and tied Bush's hands.
After they burned the first Jew at Auschwitz, would you have said, "Let it drop! It's OVER!"?
You say that the legislature in a sense "voted" for Terri's death by failing to pass another law to save her.
But Jeb Bush's legal authority, and duty, to act didn't flow from the legislation that was before the state senate. It flowed directly from the state constitution and the U.S. Constitution. The failure of the legislature to pass some act is irrelevant.
And when it comes to obeying the law, the three branches do not engage in a "vote"--two against one, etc.
I agree, he had that obligation and didn't do it. He's a coward who thinks more highly of his reputation and career.
Now it seems clear to me that the writers of the Constitution were quite provocatively declaring that judges are NOT God, since it would be much easier all around to just pick such people with infallible judgment instead of all the bother of letting 12 rather ordinary people decide a verdict which may very well be opposite to that which the judge is inclined.
And what's this in Article III, Section 2? "In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme [sic] Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned [preceding paragraph], the supreme [sic] Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make." Note: "sic" is Latin for "thus" and need not imply anything further.
Why have an appellate jurisdiction at all if lower-level judges WERE infallible and exempt from criticism?
What does it mean that the supreme Court can have appellate jurisdiction as to "Law AND Fact"???? I thought everybody has been saying upper-level courts are forbidden to review the [alleged] FACTS of Terri Schindler (schiavo)'s case and can only deal with legal PROCEDURE?
And then what would have prevented Congress (other than Democrat Party opposition) from voting to declare that this case was in fact suitable for fitting under "with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make"?
I believe that one good aspect of this whole judicial murder affair is that more and more people come to realize that the judiciary can be as corrupt and unworthy of trust as any other branch of government, and it is healthy to know that fact.
BUMP.
Jeb isn't running for re-election
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