Government's Role in Terri Schiavo Case

The federal government should have no level of involvement in a case like Terri Schiavo's because that level of government does not have the power to intervene in a situation like that. The federal government only has the powers granted to it explicitly in the Constitution, so it doesn't have the right to take over state jurisdiction as Congress did in the Schiavo case when it transferred jurisdiction from state judiciary to federal district courts. No matter how much the public demands for action from the federal government, if it does not have the power to do anything, it is illegal for the federal government to try and override state governments, as Congress tried to do in the Schiavo case.

State governments, on the other hand, have the jurisdiction over these kinds of matters since any power not granted to the federal government is reserved to the states. The parents of Terri Schiavo would be able to take legal action all the way up to the state judiciary but not past that, and any other actions by the government should only be at the state level.