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Gov. Jeb Bush will ask the Florida Supreme Court (news - web sites) to reconsider its 7-0 ruling against a law designed to keep a brain-damaged woman alive, a spokesman said Monday. Florida's high court ruled two weeks ago that Bush and state lawmakers overstepped their authority with the year-old law ordering that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube be reinserted six days after her husband had it removed so she could die. Since a judge had heard evidence in the case and ruled for the husband, the law violated the fundamental doctrine of separation of powers in the Florida Constitution, the...