Mr. P said:But not on a individual legal case or state.
Where is THAT written? It was an emergency measure; they've done that all through our history.
Mr. P said:Sure they pass law, but you know exactly what they were attemping here. It wasn't right and it failed.
Ah, well - we all have our opinions on the Schiavo case; the point I tried to stay with was that Congress never strayed from it's Constitutional authority - opinions on their motivations aside. It's as if we'd all gotten so used to seeing the Constitution screwed over by the judiciary, we'd forgotten how it's supposed to work.