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To: sweetliberty
Using executive power to prevent a murder, or completion of a murder pending furthur investigation I just can't see as being equivolent of using it to circumvent congress. Apples and oranges.

There's a court order that allows Terri's feeding tube to be pulled, based on state law. What you want is Jeb to void the court order by an executive order ("stroke of the pen, law of the land, cool," Paul Begala).

And I really hate to point this out, but no murder investigation can be commenced until Terri is dead.

174 posted on 10/19/2003 10:25:17 AM PDT by Catspaw
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To: Catspaw
"There's a court order that allows Terri's feeding tube to be pulled, based on state law....no murder investigation can be commenced until Terri is dead."

The state law is premised on a person being in a persistent vegetative state, which Terri clearly is not. And there most certainly can be an investigation of attempted murder.

What is happening is a clear perversion of the law and as such, the governor has an obligation to see that the higher law is upheld, which is Terri's right to life and protection from neglect and abuse. I am not certain that executive order is the appropriate way to address it. It looks as if there are other legal avenues open to Governor Bush if he would choose to pursue them, based on the legal opinions that he has been given and that have been posted on these threads. I am of the opinion that he has a legal obligation to do something, and he certainly has a moral obligation. As one poster said, he could at least have a press conference amd make some of thes facts known and condemn what is happening, but instead it appears that he is encouraging the media to downplay the story, as per a post on a thread last night. If this is true, then I believe he is wrong.

183 posted on 10/19/2003 10:52:31 AM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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To: Catspaw
There's a court order that allows Terri's feeding tube to be pulled, based on state law.

State law may allow the feeding tube to be pulled, but it certainly does not allow oral sustenance to be denied.

251 posted on 10/19/2003 5:00:13 PM PDT by supercat (Why is it that the more "gun safety" laws are passed, the less safe my guns seem?)
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