Tuesday, March 22, 2005
appalling.
from the nytimes op-ed page: A Blow to the Rule of Law
They did so yesterday with the new law, which gives "any parent of Theresa Marie Schiavo" standing to sue in federal court to keep her alive.
This narrow focus is offensive. The founders believed in a nation in which, as Justice Robert Jackson once wrote, we would "submit ourselves to rulers only if under rules." There is no place in such a system for a special law creating rights for only one family. . . . the right to bring such claims in federal court is reserved for people with enough political pull to get a law passed that names them in the text.
from the nytimes op-ed page: A Blow to the Rule of Law
They did so yesterday with the new law, which gives "any parent of Theresa Marie Schiavo" standing to sue in federal court to keep her alive.
This narrow focus is offensive. The founders believed in a nation in which, as Justice Robert Jackson once wrote, we would "submit ourselves to rulers only if under rules." There is no place in such a system for a special law creating rights for only one family. . . . the right to bring such claims in federal court is reserved for people with enough political pull to get a law passed that names them in the text.
