Michael Schiavo Files Request With the SCOTUS, USSC Refuses to Take Schiavo Case

[PhiKapMom]

You did not bother to read what I had to say! At the Federal level starting with the District Judge the family's attorneys made the WRONG pleading. The District Judge gave her attorneys a roadmap to follow in their appeal to the 11th Circuit and they did not use that roadmap. The dissenting judge at the 11th Circuit provided more ammo for their appeal to the full 11th Circuit which the attorneys ignored not to mention it took them TEN hours to make that appeal. Then in their appeal to the SCOTUS, the legal expert of Fox News, Steve Centani (sp) who is very good said he found mistakes in their pleading to the SCOTUS.

Now you blame the Federal Judges who for years we have asked not to be judicial activists for ruling beyond what they were given?

Give me a break -- go look at her attorneys and who is pulling their strings -- less face time on TV and on talk radio and asking for help from some legal beagles would have served her much better IMHO.

[wku man]

Have you read Unintended Consequences yet? Since the Moderator said calls for violence would be deleted, I refer to that particular book.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[BigEdLB]

Normally Michal Savage is a nutcase, although his heart is usually in the right place...But when...

both Bill Bennett, and Ann Coulter also suggest that Jeb or "W" could act unilaterally, and, these folks are measured and rational ESPECIALLY Bennett...

[BibChr]

Or colons.

[Rutles4Ever]

Unfortunately, no. I'm not even sure if she's going to receive Last Rites - but I have a feeling they will find it somewhere in their ghoulish beings to allow a priest to rub a sign of the cross in oil on her forehead...

Horror of horrors.

[Darnright]

>If you have children, do not support their decision to marry UNLESS and only UNLESS their fiance/fiancee agrees to sign a waiver that, in in the event that your married child is so incapacitated that they can't make their own health decisions, that YOU and NOT the spouse will be the sole guardian. If your child and his/her intended do not accept this agreement, do nothing to support their wedding (pay for it, attend it etc.)<

I understand how you feel. We have an only daughter. I do not know how Mary Schindler has carried on, I really do not. This case is tearing me up, and I can't imagine the absolute hell Mary Schindler and her family must be experiencing in this battle for the life of the child they so desperately love.

[gruffwolf]

This isn't the first time the tube was removed, is it? I thought I read that they had tried to do this a couple of years ago.

If that's true, they've had plenty of time to look at the issue. I wonder why they waited until now to deal with this.

[MineralMan]

"Interesting choice of terms, "pontificating". As in Pontius Pilate, you know."

Also as in "the pontiff," referring to the Pope.

[1Old Pro]

"It was unseemly for critics to compare her end with that of victims of the Nazi regime."

I agree, starving people and burning them has nothing to do with starving Terri and incineratiing her body.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

When did President George W Bush say he would act on his own yesterday?

At his press conference about an hour before Jeb's:

"And I believe that in a case such as this, the legislative branch, the executive branch ought to err on the side of life, which we have. And now we'll watch the courts make its decisions. But we look at all options from the executive branch perspective," said Bush. http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=39270

Contrary to some published transcripts, he said "look", present tense, not "looked."
And something you cannot get from a transcript: He paused before the last sentence. Then in a deeper and much sterner voice finished the remark. If SCOTUS was paying attention, they did not get it. The Russians would never have mistaken the tone and implications. But it is clear he was saying that Congress was done and the judicial branch was not going to be further consulted.

[neutrality]

Fox is saying justices were unanimous in decision

[fight_truth_decay]

Florida Judiciary Defines the Rule: State Constitution Be Damned!

Florida Constitution, Article I Section 2: All natural persons, female and male alike, are equal before the law and have inalienable rights, among which are the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty…No person shall be deprived of any right because of race, religion, national origin, or physical disability.

The Florida judiciary has determined that it can deprive Terri Schiavo of her right to life simply because she is disabled and allegedly has no hope of recovery.

This court system has defined a very simple rule, and it is this: The courts have the final say, State Constitution be damned.

The wanton disregard for Article I Section 2 by has created a constitutional crisis which cannot be solved by within the very system which created the crisis – the Florida courts. Going to the Federal route, as the numerous legal defeats have shown, is a losing proposition.

Gov. Bush is playing in the State Court’s sandbox, and as a result, is reaching for statutory grounds on which to take Terri into custody. Does he seriously think the courts, which disregard the Constitution, are going uphold state laws?

Jeb needs to exercise his duty and responsibility as governor by enforcing Article I Section 2 – the illicit rules of the courts be damned!

Gov. Bush does not need to justify himself to the court nor file any more petitions. He simply needs to give the orders to take Terri into protective custody without delay. It is upon the court to explain how its orders do not violate Terri’s rights, not he other way around.

”Gov. Bush, please enforce Article I Section 2 and stop playing by the illicit rules of the Florida Judiciary. You have the obligation and the authority to enforce the State Constitution without first having to explain yourself in court. No more excuses or court filings, just take Terri into custody NOW.”

jeb.bush@myflorida.com
president@whitehouse.gov

[Lazamataz]

That's really impactworthy in the impactitude department, impactwise.

[BibChr]

Oh sure, HIM you laugh at. I'm funny too, but you never laugh at ME!

< pout >

Dan

[Defiant]

What would be interesting would be if someone were to step forward and press charges against Terri for a crime she commited before this all happened

That type of action would be patently specious and not helpful. I suggested tongue in cheek the other day that President Bush should draft her. But it was not serious. If the executive branch steps in to save the day here, they will need to have a well-reasoned legal argument in support of this action, complete with citation to statutory authority and case law, and even then, they will be attacked viciously by the pro-death media. For the rest of their careers, it will be mentioned in any sentence with their name on it. To act on phony reasons will do no one any good.

[green pastures]

It didn't come across as elated to me. Rather, just matter of fact.

I continue to hold out hope that there will be some intervention-- to err on the side of life if you will-- because I have serious reservations about the handling of this case. Sadly, time is running out.

Some in this world we live in are, no doubt, elated about this. But I have never gottne that impression form MineralMan.

Take care,

[MineralMan]

"Unless Jeb tests his constitutional powers and does the right thing."

I predict that he will not do any such thing.

[jaykay]

A number of the SCOTUS are currently seriously ill or have been recently.They must be updating their Living Wills as I type.

I can see it now; attorneys arguing cases in front on 9 jars with heads floating in them.

[matymac]

Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic? Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a point when one must take a
position that is neither safe, nor polite, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.
-- Martin Luther King,Jr. -

That should guide very decision made by our leaders...be they elected or judicial.