Anyone know how long it will take a Federal Court to review Schiavo Case?

Will this be a short review or will it take weeks?

Sorry to post another Schiavo post but I am so burned up about this I am about to move to Canada. The Republicans looked like a fucking Alternative High School loosing debating team tonight. Who the fuck votes for these clowns!!!!

No guarantee that what I've read will be how it acually turns out

That's what should happen. But I really have no clue.

why Congress should approve *'s choices to fill the federal bench with more "common sense" judges.

but I don't see how that's possible now that the tube has already been disconnected. The court has to order a new operation. It's more difficult than if they had acted before Friday.

This is only a guess, I'm no lawyer. The DU legal minds will know far better.

.........will try to get the Feds to order the tube reinstalled while the issue is being litigated, and that's where they'll hit a wall. No sane Federal judge will declare that all of the Florida state courts lacked jurisdiction.

Of course, I never dreamed the Supreme Court would anoint Ratface in 2000................

I guess we'll find out soon enough.

I hope they get it, because I'm betting that the Feds will toss it right away.

Oh, and in answer to your question about who votes for those fucking clowns, I'd say fucking clowns vote for them.

Just a guess.

first time I have watched C-Span in quite some time but I have to tell you I was absolutely stunned at what light weights the Republicans were tonight. I mean I am simply just blown away! Is it always like this? The only Republicans who sounded like they had any brains and depth were voting against this insane Bill.

You're getting a big lesson in how stupid our elected representatives can be.

Just think of the people who voted for them.

of death already been started and her body beginning to shut down? No one is talking about this. Even if the feeding tube is put back she could be worse off.

I don't want to sound cruel but how can you damage a Vegetable any worse than before? Isn't that like an oxymoron? She was practically brain dead before now she is a just brain dead with a parched mouth.

Not trying to be funny. Just stating a fact.

by over cooking it.

If the judge is prepared to throw all judicial jurisdiction questions to the Congress, decades.

To the DU lawyers: Isn't that correct?

is the Federal Court will dismiss it, i.e. refuse to hear it because it's not a federal matter.

and whether the federal court even has jurisdiction in the matter?
I heard Schiavo's lawyer said this case had already been to the US Supreme Court three times. Do you know if that is correct?

The Congress cannot adjudicate court cases when all other avenues have been utilized.

Congress has usurped the power of the judiciary.

My son & I discussed this when I drove him to school this morning. We are supposed to have a balance of powers at the federal level. There is an intended system of checks and balances to keep any one branch from becoming too powerful. At this point,the legislative branch is improperly interfering with the judicial, not in order to keep it from being too powerful, but as a tool of the executive branch. The legislature is being used to deconstruct the Constitution.

I'm all in favor of an orderly discussion of values in America. Let's have an open and very frank discussion about the value of human life. Let's put the cards on the table.

But let's do it within the framework of that great document.

So how many of us on here believe that Tom Delay has probably already spoken with the federal court that will review the case, and threatened them into ruling a certain way?

That's the thought that keeps running across my mind. It's probably already a done deal.