It's after 5PM, now. The state govt. offices are shut down. Guess we needn't expect to hear anything from the executive branch until Monday. Too late, of course. I'd like to believe otherwise but it just doesn't seem realistic. I desperately hope they prove me mistaken.
I read something in the Florida constitution that the governor has the power to intervene to protect persons, property etc. in an emergency. Terri is a person. This is surely an emergency. He is free to exercise his executive powers as he believes is appropriate. That is not against the law even if it is not in agreement with a court ruling.
I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that the courts have the final say in anything. This even applies to the Supreme Court. Abraham Lincoln ingnored their ruling as did WJC. That just about covers the full spectrum of morality.
If , after the governor takes executive action, I believe there are remedies in the legislature (impeachment, for one) and also the people may remedy it by voting him out of office.
Either remedy is OK by me because by the time they could be implemented the Schindlers could have absconded Terri out of harms way to a safe haven.
Indeed, Bush has the power. The question is; does he have the fortitude?
If he lets this woman be murdered in this way by a husband who cares not one whit for her, then his political career is over and his name is mud.
I tried to find someone in history to compare him to, but failed. He is truly in a class of one.
Would you feel the same way if you knew she had requested not to be kept alive under these conditions? (I know we cannot know, but it seems many here disagree with her right to have that decision carried out even if she did make that decision)