From the NY Times Article"
Jeb Bush Files Brief in Case of Woman on Life Support
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Published: October 8, 2003
"MIAMI, Oct. 7 — For the second time this year, Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida is seeking to sway a contentious case involving an incapacitated person, this time trying to keep a brain-damaged woman alive against her husband's wishes......
In April, Mr. Bush asked a court to appoint a guardian for the fetus of a severely retarded woman in Orlando, to ensure that the woman's own guardian did not allow an abortion....."
Now THAT's encouraging.
From
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/6957135.htm Gov. Bush pleas for caution in case of brain-damaged woman
BY MAYA BELL
The Orlando Sentinel
".... In a telephone interview from his Dunedin office, Felos said the governor was misusing his political clout to undermine the independence of the judiciary.
"THE JUDICIAL PROCESS IS NOT A PUBLIC-RELATIONS FORUM, and I think it ill serves his office to pursue such brazen political intervention,'' Felos said.
Bush Press Secretary Alia Faraj said the decision on accepting the brief rested with the court......"
['The judicial process is not a public-relations forum....' That's right; it's more like an oligarchy.]
Psa 82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
Psa 82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless: DO JUSTICE TO THE AFFLICTED and needy.
Psa 82:5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
Psa 82:7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Psa/Psa082.html Matthew Henry Commentary on Psalm 82:
".....[Judges] are to administer justice impartially, and do right to the afflicted and needy, who, being weak and helpless, have often wrongs done them; and will be in danger of losing all if magistrates do not, ex officio—officially, interpose for their relief.... 3. They are to rescue those who have already fallen into the hands of oppressors and deliver them. (v. 4): Rid them out of the hand of the wicked. Avenge them of their adversary, Lu. 18:3. These are clients whom there is nothing to be got by, no pay for serving them, no interest by obliging them; yet these are those whom judges and magistrates must concern themselves for, whose comfort they must consult and whose cause they must espouse.
III. A charge drawn up against bad magistrates, who neglect their duty and abuse their power, forgetting that God standeth among them, v. 2, 5. Observe, 1. What the sin is they are here charged with; they judge unjustly, contrary to the rules of equity and the dictates of their consciences, giving judgment against those who have right on their side, out of malice and ill-will, or for those who have an unrighteous cause, out of favour and partial affection. To do unjustly is bad, but to judge unjustly is much worse, because it is doing wrong under colour of right; "
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/mhc/Psa/Psa082.html Psa 82:1-8 . Before the great Judge, the judges of the earth are rebuked, exhorted, and threatened.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/jfb/Psa/Psa082.html