The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that Attorney General John Ashcroft exceeded his authority when he attempted to block Oregon’s assisted-suicide law. In 2001, the Attorney General ordered that Oregon physicians who dispensed lethal barbiturates under the Death With Dignity law were in violation of a federal narcotics statute. John Eastman, JD, PhD, Professor of Law At Chapman University School of Law specializing in Constitutional Law and Legal History and N. Gregory Hamilton, M.D., a Portland doctor and former president of Physicians for Compassionate Care, join Host Larry Mantle to discuss the issue.
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