{"id":6360,"date":"2006-01-17T12:49:54","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T17:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6360"},"modified":"2006-01-17T12:49:54","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T17:49:54","slug":"assisted-suicide-law-wins-at-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/assisted-suicide-law-wins-at-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Assisted-suicide law wins at Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bush administration has argued for years that it could block an Oregon law permitting physician-assisted suicide. Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/01\/17\/AR2006011700435.html\">the Supreme Court disagreed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Supreme Court upheld Oregon&#8217;s one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law Tuesday, rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die.<\/p>\n<p>Justices, on a 6-3 vote, said that a federal drug law does not override the 1997 Oregon law used to end the lives of more than 200 seriously ill people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In light of the controversy, all eyes were on new Chief Justice John Roberts &#8212; who joined Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia in the dissent. Fortunately, there were only three of them, for now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ruling was a reprimand to former Attorney General John Ashcroft, who in 2001 said that doctor-assisted suicide is not a &#8220;legitimate medical purpose&#8221; and that Oregon physicians would be punished for helping people die under the law.<\/p>\n<p>[Justice Anthony] Kennedy said the &#8220;authority claimed by the attorney general is both beyond his expertise and incongruous with the statutory purposes and design.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Had Samuel Alito been on the bench, we&#8217;d still be looking at a 5-4 ruling, at least on this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bush administration has argued for years that it could block an Oregon law permitting physician-assisted suicide. Today, the Supreme Court disagreed. The Supreme Court upheld Oregon&#8217;s one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law Tuesday, rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die. Justices, on a 6-3 vote, said that a federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}