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To: highball

Judge Greer exercised veto power over Terri Schiavo's medical decisions, and over the jury's decision. He overturned the jury's decision to award the money for Terri's care. He diverted those funds to her estranged husband and his lawyers, for the purpose of overturning Terri's medical decisions.

The state also vetoed Terri's medical decisions. They were charged with upholding her rights, but they trampled all over them.

I do not believe the state, or any government agency, has the right to overturn any citizen's constitutional rights.

Judge Greer is speaking out in favor of the jury system, while standing by his right to break numerous laws in the process of overturning that very system.


30 posted on 01/06/2007 11:09:30 PM PST by BykrBayb (Be careful what you ask for, and even more careful what you demand. Þ)
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To: BykrBayb
I do not believe the state, or any government agency, has the right to overturn any citizen's constitutional rights.

That's very cute rhetoric, but it isn't what happened here.

The state didn't make the medical decisions. Her husband did, as is his right and his obligation. That you don't like the decisions he eventually made does not justify sophistry.

34 posted on 01/07/2007 4:29:15 AM PST by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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