Or, at least they get close. After days of reading ignorant headlines about a “comatose woman”, http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/10/18/coma.woman/index.html CNN has upgraded Terri Schiavo’s condition to “disabled”. I say they get close. The article still describes her as being in a “coma-like” state and does not make it clear that Terri is verifiably conscious.
Meanwhile, Greg Krehbiel reminds us that the executive branch is not helpless in the face of bad court decisions:
“Gov. Bush has swallowed the lie of the imperial court. Who, after all, controls the police in the state of Florida? Isn’t it the governor? By the wise design of our founders, judges have no power at all to enforce their decisions. They rely entirely on the executive branch. It’s one of those checks that was supposed to keep us from tyranny, but the check has bounced. Executives act as if they’re captive to courts.
Think about this for a minute. We all know what intellectuals are like. It’s very easy for them to get tied in knots over some strange point of law or procedure that, in the grand scheme of things, doesn’t really matter. That’s why we have executives, and that’s why we have juries — to keep the lawyers from running the country. I don’t know if this is the right case, but sometime soon it has to be done. Some executive has to have the courage to refuse to enforce a court decision.”
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