I listened to the Presser by Santorum, Martinez and Harkin(of all people) yesterday. I thought the case must be heard de novo, because that's what all three of them said. Like it was written in the bill. About restarting food and water...they all also said that the Justice would have to do that because it is standard procedure in such a situation. If life and death is hanging on your handling of a case, you order that no harm be done to the party while you hear the case. Otherwise, the party would die before their case could be heard, and no Federal Judge would do that. That is what they said, anyway. It seems this bill is tighter on the language in some respects than the original Senate bill, or that is the impression I got. All three were so certain that the Federal Judge would act quickly and appropriately.
I just never know anymore what a judge is going to do. Today, even, the Republicans were asked when this lands on a judge's desk, what he'd do (as far as taking it or it helping Terri or something like that)....and they said "they don't know." That is my understanding from today's presser.
The point being you can't give Terri a fair trial if she is deceased. So, what Judge would be that stupid and would want to go down as Hitler like Judge Greer has become known as?