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Even the "conservative" Justice Antonin Scalia ridicules the Declaration of Independence, noting it has no legal status. And that's where there is reference to so-called "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." It's all mere words now. Jefferson has been overruled by Greer and Whittemore.

I hope the President and the Attorney General are standing by to give Terri emergency "injunctive relief". Are they not responsible for enforcing the laws of the United States?

"The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish." . . . . . . C. S. Lewis

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.... U.S. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE