Those pesky states

I'm making the assumption that the Bushies (who still claim some Conservative street cred despite the fact that they have less Conservativism in them than Barry Goldwater had in his pinkie) , support the Federal Government's dramatic usurpation of state powers to dictate to the people of Oregon on an issue they have TWICE voted for directly. If my assumption is correct, please tell me how that opinion squares with your rantings of about the State's democratic rights about banning gay marriage.

I suppose they are hoping for a little judicial activism here, right. Dictatorship of the judiciary and all that...

Right to Die

"The John Roberts Court will hear its first high-profile
arguments today, when the justices take up a case involving doctor-assisted
suicide. Oregon law allows terminally ill people to take lethal drugs to end
their lives. But the Bush administration has tried to override this law by
threatening to prosecute doctors involved in such cases. The Supreme Court
should make it clear that Oregon can allow doctor-assisted suicide," The New
York Times reports. In Cato's friend of the court brief http://www.cato.org/pubs/legalbriefs/gonzales-oregon.pdf
,
co-author Mark Moller, a Cato senior fellow in constitutional studies, argues
that the federal government must respect the special role of states as
laboratories of experiment in our constitutional framework.