Someone posed this to me the other day, and I dismissed it then as easily as I will now:
I agree that individuals have a duty to disobey immoral laws. For instance, in this case, if the doctor (or whomever) who was ordered to actually, physically, remove the tube from Terri's throat were to object on moral grounds, I wouldn't have a problem with that and I wouldn't expect him to be punished for disregarding the order.
However, when you are dealing with governments, that rationale no longer holds true, because governments, which draft and enforce the laws, aren't free to simply disregard the laws they don't like, because the laws are all we have to hold together society. Without law, there is no civilization. What is the point of having a constitution or laws if government is not bound? It is an exercise in fiction--nothing more than an illusion of security and civilization.
As I said on another thread, only God is perfect. We just have the law.
What law or laws in particular are you saying congress violated by sending this matter to a federal court?
However, when you are dealing with governments, that rationale no longer holds true, because governments, which draft and enforce the laws, aren't free to simply disregard the laws they don't like,
You do understand the Constitution says that the Congress was well within the law, don't you? What is it you don't understand about that?
What kind of law allows a person to be starved to death? Just answer that - what kind of law?