Schiavo ruling

While watching the House debate the Schiavo bill, I remember hearing numerous times that this bill offered no judgment in favor of the parents, only granted a venue in federal court to the case. Well, the judge has ruled that the feeding tube should not be reinstated, and guess what Rick Santorum says:

U.S. District Court Judge James Whittemore has defied Congress by not staying Terri Schiavo's starvation execution for the time it takes him to hold a full hearing on her case, a leading Republican senator said Tuesday.

"You have judicial tyranny here," Santorum told WABC Radio in New York. "Congress passed a law that said that you had to look at this case. He simply thumbed his nose at Congress."

So Santorum is upset because the judge didn't do what Congress wanted him to do, even though they said expressly that this bill was not a ruling in favor of the feeding tube being restored.

I must say I'm a little disappointed the judge sidestepped the Constitutionality of the bill altogether, as that was the argument I was most interested in. Still, for Terri's sake, I'm pleased to see she is getting what she asked for.