The appeals court judge in the latest (are we at 27 yet) iteration of the Schindler-Schiavo legal extravaganza had a few choice words for the Congress and the president, and their unwanted (and unwarranted) intervention in the Terri Schiavo case:
Said the judge, who, by the way, is a Bush I appointee:
"Any further action by our court or the district court would be improper," wrote Judge Stanley F. Birch Jr., who was appointed by former President Bush. "While the members of her family and the members of Congress have acted in a way that is both fervent and sincere, the time has come for dispassionate discharge of duty." Birch went on to scold President Bush and Congress for their attempts to intervene in the judicial process, by saying: "In resolving the Schiavo controversy, it is my judgment that, despite sincere and altruistic motivation, the legislative and executive branches of our government have acted in a manner demonstrably at odds with our Founding Fathers' blueprint for the governance of a free people — our Constitution."
Amen to that. Oh, and looks like the Schindlers are headed back to the Supreme Court for yet another appeal. My question is, how long can this continue? How many more bites at the legal apple do the Schindlers get? And do they in their wildest dreams think that this spectacle (complete with reports of a video of Terri for sale to would-be donors) would have wanted?
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On another note, goodbye Johnny Cochran. Forget the O.J. case, Cochran was a great man, who shined, both as an African-American leader, a role model and an attorney. God bless you, man. |
