Not only has the Terri Schiavo affair has badly — in some cases terminally — offended the reality-based, scientifically literate conservatives, it has also annoyed the process-oriented, rule-of-law, limited-goverment conservatives. Charles Fried, for example, who was Ronald Reagan’s Solicitor General (and who was criticized back then for taking excessively aggressive legal positions on behalf of the administration), has a scathing piece in yesterday’s New York Times called Federalism Has a Right to Life, Too.
