If the dems get into power in the Congress will we ever see appointments of judges sympathetic to cases like that of Terri?
And who can forget the Terri Schiavo debacle? It really was touching when the Republicans - out of heartfelt sympathy, I'm sure - called an emergency session of Congress to prevent the removal of Schiavo's feeding tube. Never mind that this was a family and state issue, not a federal one.
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"In part it was Iraq and in part the Terri Schiavo case," Walker says. "The Republican Party here in Marion County has gone too far to the right."
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"State" issue? That quaint notion was overturned by the 14th Amendment in 1868. This Amendment was in large measure a correction of the Supreme Court's Dred Scott ruling. It authorizes Congress to step in when the rights of an individual like Dred Scott or Terri Schiavo are being trampled by state government. Here are the key provisions:
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.