"I don't agree with those who say the new bill is unconstitutional, since the Constitution specifies that the Congress sets the jurisdiction of the federal courts. The newly-born advocates of states' rights are transparently insincere since they're several decades too late raising their voices.

But I am uneasy about the Congress's and the president's action. I don't know enough about Terri's condition to evaluate whether she is beyond hope of recovery, but presumably her doctors and the courts have weighed all the information. They're not infallible by any means, but they are also "the only game in town" to make an evaluation. There is no independent corroboration that Terri would want to be disconnected, as husband Michael Schiavo asserts. And Mr. Schiavo is no admirable character here";

as James Taranto wrote, it is

... unreasonable to let Mr. Schiavo have it both ways. If he wishes to assert his marital authority to do his wife in, the least society can expect in return is that he refrain from making a mockery of his marital obligations. The grimmest irony in this tragic case is that those who want Terri Schiavo dead are resting their argument on the fiction that her marriage is still alive.

I'm quite astonished to hear people who call themselves conservatives arguing, in effect, that Congress and the federal courts have a free-ranging charter to correct any injustice, anywhere, regardless of the Constitution.