Posted on 03/23/2005 9:37:12 AM PST by xzins
President Bush just stated that he waits for this to go through the judicial process, BUT that he looks at all options from AN EXECUTIVE BRANCH PERSPECTIVE!
By the time the judicial process is done it will be too late..can't he do something now?
Maybe he means he'll step in if needed.
He's needed if he's going to do it.
Well, he does represent the Executive branch. What perspective do you think he should use?
What does the President mean?
What are his options?
I just hope the FL state legislature doesn't think of this as an excuse to do nothing...
He was intentional. He was sending a message.
What can he do? This is all about the state law of Florida, which nobody has overturned yet.
I'm sure they will.
Did anyone else hear this?
I'd like to know if he said anything else!!
George W. Bush Rules!!!
My guess is that Attorney General Gonzales and his staff are working overtime to find a way for the President to step in as the President without setting a precedent for future Presidents. Walking a thin wire here and sure hope the legal beagles at DOJ come up with something fast.
From what I can tell so far:
a. Say he his disappointed in the court's decision
b. State that we should err on the side of life
c. Do nothing while she is killed
He can send in federal marshals in order to recover the facility, and put the tube back in.
If President Clinton can override the judiciary and pardon Marc Rich, President Bush can save Terri Schiavo.
Couldn't he simply issue some sort of executive order?
See, for example, from faculty.smu.edu/dsimon/Change-Civ%20Rts.html:
October 1957
Central High School
Little Rock, Arkansas
(David Halberstam, The Fifties, Chapter 44)
To comply with the Brown v. Board decision, plans were made to integrate Central High School in September of 1957. When nine black high school students arrived to attend Central High, they were met by an angry crowd. Despite his pledges of cooperation, the governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, in fact, ordered the Arkansas National Guard to keep the black students, known as the "Little Rock Nine," out of the school.
Faced with this defiance of a federal court order, President Dwight Eisenhower responded by sending troops from the 101st Airborne to Little Rock with orders to protect the nine students.
Eisenhower also federalized the Arkansas National Guard. This marked the first time since Reconstruction that federal troops were sent to the South. This incident was the first of several in which the governor of a state refused to ensure a peaceful process of integration and thereby forced the President of the United States to act...
And it's watching.
Why would we be worried about setting a precedent if it's the right and legal thing to do? If it's the right thing, then we would want it to set a precedent.
About all Bush can do is title her an enemy combatant, arrest her and have her shipped to a Military Base for confinement.
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