'This is what,s troubling to me: Not whether we should review the general subject about how we treat people who are disabled -- I think we should do that - but that because members of Congress in the majority, for a variety of reasons - religious, sincere, political - disagreed with the result that the Florida courts had reached after years of litigation, they said to the federal court, Disregard the Florida courts.

De novo means you make believe the Florida courts never happened. And that is something that is not something we,ve ever done or should do."