The kindly jurist would reply, "Where does the Constitution address granting the parents a lock of hair?"
So you believe anything not specificially granted in the Constitution isn't permitted???
Ah, but do we not "throw ourselves upon the mercy of the courts?". Apparently, mercy is merely an option in the pact between the courts and the people. Denial of a lock of a dead child's hair to a parent would not be the comment of a kindly jurist. A punctilious one, perhaps.
From "Dead Man Walking"
All you hypocrites and liars
In the temple seeking gain
All you senators and lawyers
With your motives to explain
All you victims and you heroes
Your petitions to complain
All you murderers and martyrs
On the fields where you lay slain
On the just and unjust
Alike it doth rain
And the quality of mercy is not strained
Yes vengeance and revenge
Are just two words for pain
And the quality of mercy is not strained
Did not I crucify my Lord?
Did not I bind Him in chains?
Did not I three times betray Him?
Three times deny His name?
Did not I cast the first stone?
Then justify the blame?
Did not He die for my sins
But never would I do the same?
Oh I've been three times a sinner
And two times a saint
And the quality of mercy is not strained
Yes for Love if it's Love
Is changing but unchanged
And the quality of mercy is not strained
Hypocrites and liars
Senators and lawyers
Victims and heroes
Murderers and martyrs
Crucify my Lord
Bind Him in chains
Three times betray Him
Justify the blame
On the just and unjust
Alike it doth rain
And the quality of mercy is not strained
Worth repeating.
Pseudojudge, who never took the Oath of Office, Greer should be arrested tomorrow, then tried, and convicted for conspiracy to murder.
The kindly jurist would reply, "Where does the Constitution address granting the parents a lock of hair?"
Tenth Amendment - The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Greer allowed the husband to pull out the feeding tube on a dubious claim (that he remembered only after he collected $1 million lawsuit award) that that is what Terri Schiavo would have wanted.
Is there any rational person who would ever imagine that Terri Schiavo would not have wanted her parents to have a lock of her hair?
The decision to deny her parents a lock of her hair is the ultimate in judicial pettiness and arrogance.
At last a voice of reason. Everything that happens between the two sides now is a family fight and no ones business. Personally I don't care about it. Cared about her, but not either side of her family now. If they keep it in the news, it is for attention and not for Terri. The ones out for revenge will suffer for it all the more.