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To: FreedomCalls
"then it is a candidate for Supreme Court review in order to resolve the conflict in the rulings."

Not at all. There is no conflict. Florida and Maryland are each sovereign states, and each are entitled to make separate laws so long as they all fall under the powers delegated to the states by the Constitution, and so long as they don't conflict with the 14th Amendment.

The SCOTUS has no more business ruling in these cases than it did in Roe v Wade.
6 posted on 03/31/2005 3:26:15 PM PST by NJ_gent (Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.)
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To: jwalsh07
Florida and Maryland are each sovereign states, and each are entitled to make separate laws so long as they all fall under the powers delegated to the states by the Constitution, and so long as they don't conflict with the 14th Amendment.

The SCOTUS has no more business ruling in these cases than it did in Roe v Wade.

I still don't understand.

Is it because the 14th Amendment ONLY outlawed slavery that it's okay to murder by "due process" if state legislation lays a foundation for a court to rule thus?

9 posted on 03/31/2005 3:34:05 PM PST by Askel5 († Cooperatio voluntaria ad suicidium est legi morali contraria. †)
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To: NJ_gent
The SCOTUS has no more business ruling in these cases than it did in Roe v Wade.

And the hypocrisy of the liberals in this area is all we should be talking about. They no longer have any grounds to stand on in abortion law. States should decide. We should use their hypocrisy and the hypocrisy of the liberals to push for change in these other areas. We lost on the Shiavo issue so fine. Let's make this states' rights thing stick. If the feds have no business butting in when the issue is about the life of a disabled women, then they have no business anywhere else. I give us on the Shiavo issue. The glorious liberals were right. So may they live by it from here on out.

12 posted on 03/31/2005 3:48:35 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: NJ_gent; Askel5

It would seem to me that a law that allows certain classes of people to be actively killed but didn't allow the killing of everyone would be a flaming violation of the equal protection clause.


20 posted on 03/31/2005 6:50:18 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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