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I take it you have not taken your Con-Law final yet?

Nor have we covered Amend. XIV yet. Haven't gotten out of the Articles and Amend XI. Amend XIV starts tomorrow.

Here's a question for you. If the first amendment provides that any individual can petition the government for a redress of greivances, wouldn't that by necessity imply that every branch of the government has the inherent authority to grant any redress to which it has been so petitioned?

If that is the case then the Schiavos could petition Congress or the Executive branch for a redress of greivances and either Congress or the Executive Branch would have the power to grant such a redress.

So pursuant to the first amendment Bush could order the tube reinserted soley on the basis that the first amendment gives him that power.

I do not think that the law equals justice. The law simply equals the current way in which we do things. Hopefully, it strives to be justice, but when it is apparent that it is not, then it is the law that should give way and not justice.

Personally, I could care less if Judge Greer has accurately or adequately applied current law. If current law means that either the Judge or Schivo can deny Terri even natural means of eating and drinking, then the law if wrong....AND it should be circumvented, changed, ignored....etc.

I'm from the non-lawyer class, and as I listen to this discussion saying Greer has acted within the law, then it makes me sick that I live in a country where anal-retentive people apparently hold all the justice cards.

The best thing Pres. Bush could do is to assign a few farmers, business owners, and engineers to seats on the judiciary to include the Supreme Court. The people holding those seats currently make me sick to my stomach.