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The legal and political struggle over Terri Schiavo is quickly coming to a
close as the Supreme Court refuses to hear the case and Jeb Bush loses a battle
to take custody of her...
What, if any, legal options are left and what was Congress' intent in the law
passed on Monday morning if it didn't reinsert the feeding tube? We'll talk to
several Members heavily involved in the issue: Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT), Rep.
Barney Frank (D-MA) & Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC)...Shays will cover the GOP
schism angle...
As you might know, Maryland Senator Paul Sarbannes recently announced his
retirement at the end of his term in '07...We'll talk to a man who'd like to
succeed him, fmr. Baltimore Congressman and NAACP head Kweisi Mfume...We'll get
his take on the Democratic response to Schiavo and the road ahead for his
campaign....
We increase the heat with Bill Donahue of the Catholic League and Christopher
Hitchens on the politics and morality of the case...Muy Caliente...
Pls join us..Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Hardball Briefing
from Washington, DC
Courts reject appeals...As demonstrations continue, the Supreme Court and a
Florida judge decline appeals aimed at forcing caregivers to reinsert Terri
Schiavo's feeding tube. (MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7283607/
Schiavo parents' supporters begin to lose hope...With legal options dwindling,
pressure now on Gov. Bush http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7284660/
Peggy: In Love With Death...The bizarre passion of the pull-the-tube people.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110006460
Conservative groups' support steady...Activists promote family's fight to keep
focus on Terri Schiavo (The Washington Post)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7279621/
More than two-thirds of people who describe themselves as evangelicals and
conservatives disapprove of the intervention by Congress and President Bush in
the case of the Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman at the center of a
national debate. (AP) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050324/D891C3080.html
Police mistook a group of Iraqi soldiers wearing civilian garb for insurgents
Thursday, sparking a gunbattle that killed five in northern Iraq. In Baghdad,
electricity workers rallied to demand an end to terror attacks that have killed
many of their colleagues. (AP)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050324/D891FTQ82.html
President Bush yesterday said he opposes a civilian project to monitor illegal
aliens crossing the border, characterizing them as "vigilantes." (The
Washington Times)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050324-122200-6209r.htm
Paul Wolfowitz, the U.S. nominee to head the World Bank, has given assurances
he does not plan to further a U.S. government agenda, the outgoing president of
the development bank said on Thursday. (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=AA5DLR0SEMNZECRBAELCFEY?type=politicsNews&storyID=7997266
Arnold Schwarzenegger edged closer to facing a British libel trial on Wednesday
after he failed to block a legal action brought a reporter who alleged the
actor-turned-politician sexually assaulted her. (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7985640
Opinion/Editorial
Johnson: Not Dead at All...Why Congress was right to stick up for Terri
Schiavo. http://www.slate.com/id/2115208/
Blankley: Not Fit To Judge...The perplexing, appalling, heartbreaking Terri
Shiavo case brings very modestly to mind Socrates's injunction that the proper
study of philosophy is man. http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/tblankley.htm
Hitchens: That Bleeding Heart Wolfowitz...He's not exactly who you think he is.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2115170/
Crouch: Ladies, stop buying into rap's misogyny...Black women's fight needs
more voices
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/292865p-250720c.html
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