The Schiavo Bill

Here is the text of the House bill and the Senate bill. The Senate bill is the one that is likely to pass.

The Senate bill looks like a final exam in a Federal Courts course. De novo review of state court findings. No Younger abstention. No requirement of exhaustion of remedies.

You just can't make this stuff up.

So you may be thinking, what's all this about federal injunctions against ongoing state court proceedings? Whatever happened to Hugo Black and "Our Federalism?" Well, there's at least one important difference here: the injunction against concurrent state judicial proceedings wouldn't be in violation of the Anti-injunction act, because there is express authorization from Congress.