With Schiavo Subpoenas, Congress Is Testing the Limits of Its Power

New York Times ^ | 3/19/05 | Adam Liptak

[Dane]

The elitist know it alls at Harvard chime in.

[Zeroisanumber]

The elitist know-it-alls are right, Congress is definitely treading on very thin Constitutional ice. A sneeze from SCOTUS (which may or may not have already happened) and the whole sorid affair will be over with in favor of the husband.

[AmericaUnited]

All the death-loving scum 'educate' all us 'simple folk' how serial killers and terrorists have a 'right-to-live' and innocent people (Terri, unborn babies, old people, etc.) have a right-to-die.

"You non-productive eaters must do your duty and die."

[farmer18th]

"It's simply outrageous," said Charles Fried, a law professor at Harvard who served as the solicitor general in the Reagan administration. "It is abusive and disgraceful. Even a senator has an obligation to use his power honestly and not to engage in subterfuge and pretense."

Something like a justice of the Supreme court has an obligation not to manufacture a woman's right to kill her children?

It's amazing how indignant these barbarians wax in defense of their own barbarism and heartlessness.

[Mo1]

Legal experts across the political spectrum said these maneuvers tested the boundaries of legitimate legislative action.

And so is starving a handicap women to death

What are so many afraid of ??

Why can't the public see Terry

Why has Judge Geer never seen Terry for himself or viewed the video tapes?

[Samwise]

Why has Judge Geer never seen Terry for himself or viewed the video tapes?

He's blind in more ways than one. I think it's more about ego now, though.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Send in the Marshalls. Now.

[Aussie Dasher]

If Congress does not have the power to prevent an innocent person being subject to torture and execution, why the hell is it there?

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Ahh yes where would we be without Harvard professors...

[backhoe]

Send in the Marshalls. Now.

That's the way I see it.

[The Red Zone]

It's amazing how indignant these barbarians wax

And Vaseline, too

[PhilDragoo]

There is a perp walk in your future--perhaps removal of your feeding tube--after all, you are legally blind.

[Aussie Dasher]

Where the hell do you Americans get all these dreadful bloody judges from?

[PhilDragoo]

We're going to send them back to that place. Soon.

[hawk911]

There is one question that has been troubling me - is this woman on some kind of public assistance like medicaid or medicare? That would mean that we are actually fighting to keep spending taxpayers (our dollars) on social programs. Now in this case its pretty clear, once the feeding tube is in, removing it is an act of homicide and should not be tolerated. The reason I am asking this question though, is because I saw similar postings on some liberal blogs urging people to contact shillary clinton and give her an idea to make this a government assistance issue, basically call for increase in medicaid and giving everybody free health insurance because 'we need to take care of every Schiavo out there'.

It's kind of troubling. Imagine Hillary gives a speech where she urges to keep this woman alive, and then says that this is the perfect reason why we should expand medicaid and have universal health coverage? What do we do then? The way she has been spinning lately I wouldn't put it past her to pull a stunt like that. It's scary.

[LegalEagle61]

This is all in God's hands and the prayers need to continue...Hannity had a good show tonight and he is holding the legislators to their promise of getting this done for Terri by Monday....pray for Terri to hang on!

[Warlord]

The Culture of Death has decided to sacrifice a poor woman for the advancement of its abstractions and theories. The media is working hard to establish rationalizations of the sacrifice as a badge of intellectual sophistication.

[Aussie Dasher]

What's the feeling among 'ordinary' Americans? Surely, they do not support the starvation of an innocent woman.

[Coldwater Creek]

Judge Greer is legally blind. He couldn't see her!!!!!!!!!!!1

[PFKEY]

Legal experts across the political spectrum said these maneuvers tested the boundaries of legitimate legislative action.

It will be interesting to see how this one plays out.

I guess the ball is back in congress's court seeing as how the judge snubed his nose that them.

Does anyone know what the next move will be or will congress just hope for time to quickly pass seeing as how they have been called on what might have been a bluff of sorts.

Do they have the back bone to take the next step or do they even have a legal standing to try even if they do have the nerver?