Your obvious ignorance of the events surrounding Terri's murder are glaring.
When a state government is unwilling to provide a person the protections that are provided under the state's constitution, the federal government clearly has the option of intervening, and this was clearly the case with Terri.
When a person's constitutional rights are blatantly ignored, the federal government clearly has the option of intervening, and this was clearly the case with Terri.
The United States Congress has the right to subpoena a person to appear before the full Congress or a committee to testify, if that person fails to appear they have the right to enforce the subpoena. They SHOULD have done this with Terri, but failed.
Terri Schindler Schiavo is the ONLY person in American history who was sentenced to death and executed without an indictment or a trial by jury both of which are ABSOLUTE constitutional rights.
When a state government is unwilling to provide a person the protections that are provided under the state's constitution, the federal government clearly has the option of intervening, and this was clearly the case with Terri.
When a state government is unwilling to provide a person the protections provided under the state constitution, there is a constitutional remedy -- habeus corpus. You, and thousands like you, however, were totally willing to throw the constitution and the proper relation between the federal government and the states to the wind just to satisfy your urge for justice. The urge was good, but your means was yet another bomb thrown at the foundations of limited government.
The vitriol in your post is similar to that shown by leftist sufferers of Bush Derangement Syndrome. You hate the fact that Michael Schiavo murdered Terri so much that you were willing to use every tool in your arsenal even if it meant undermining our cultural notions of limited government and the rule of law. It also conclusively demonstrated to independents that the so-called conservative / republican commitment to limited government was a complete farce and that the dems might be right when they shill that the republicans want to turn this into a theocracy to control every aspect of our lives.
Moreover, as your post shows, you are quite happy to transfer irrationally that hate onto anyone who dares to suggest that using the federal government to craft special legislation to benefit only a single person was detrimental to the republic. Federalism and limited government are great concepts until you want the federal government to impose your personal ideals on the states.
This mindset is indistinguishable from that employed by the leftists. Law (and by extension the constitution) is just a tool for you to achieve your personal ends. When the history of the Decline and Fall of the American Republic is written, that positivist attitude will be worth an entire chapter or even an entire volume in itself as one of the chief causes of the slide into fascism.
Thank you, wagglebee! I didn’t respond further because I knew you’d jump in and do a better job than I would have. :)
"When a state government is unwilling to provide a person the protections that are provided under the state's constitution, the federal government clearly has the option of intervening, and this was clearly the case with Terri." - AND more... #18 - by wagglebee