Posted on 04/13/2005 8:21:32 PM PDT by cyncooper
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay apologized Wednesday for using overheated rhetoric on the day Terri Schiavo died, but refused to say whether he supports impeachment of the judges who ruled in her case.
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At a crowded news conference in his Capitol office, DeLay addressed remarks he made in the hours after the brain-damaged Florida woman died on March 31. "I said something in an inartful way and I shouldn't have said it that way and I apologize for saying it that way," DeLay told reporters.
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DeLay seemed at pains to soften, if slightly, his rhetoric of March 31, when Schiavo died despite an extraordinary political and legal effort to save her life.
"I believe in an independent judiciary. I repeat, of course I believe in an independent judiciary," DeLay said.
At the same time, he added, the Constitution gives Congress power to oversee the courts.
"We set up the courts. We can unset the courts. We have the power of the purse," DeLay said.
Asked whether he favors impeachment for any of the judges in the Schiavo case, he did not answer directly.
Instead, he referred reporters to an earlier request he made to the House Judiciary Committee to look into "judicial activism" and Schiavo's case in particular.
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I have supplied links to some of the offending posts. That's one of the reasons the WPPFF is so obsessed with me.
You are totally delusional, and therefor...busted.
I don't have time for dishonest people. BB, you have been exposed for what you are, a liar. Too bad for you...tsk, tsk.
sw
Meanwhile, people keep following the links, and thanking me for exposing your lies.
She tried the chemo three times in three years.
My memories are of a life as perfect as I can imagine. Nothing beats being with the one you love most in the world and I have hundreds of pictures to remind me. She was loads of fun as well as being talented and a fantastic mother for our boys.
Thank you for the kind words.
Yet, nothing could be sadder.
You are most welcome...it sounds as if, your marriage was a wonderful gift to you and your wife, blessed with children...no one can ask for more than that...you were truly blessed...
TS's guardian did not make the ultimate decision in this case thus his alleged bias is of no significance. That decision was made by the court following medical advice.
If you want to separate yourself from the Conspiracy Clique that is fine with me and in no way an admission of anything since I never accused you of anything.
There was no conflict when MS was appointed guardian and there was no reason to remove him even after this "conflict" supposedly developed. It is silly to suppose this court jumped through hoops at the behest of this non-entity as so many argue.
I make no pretense of being a medical expert. Those test takers of which you speak are not lying in a bed for 15 years thus are not comparable to TS except in having the shape of a human.
God gave me Arlene for 20 years. They were indeed blessed years.
When the Founders wrote the Constitution they believed one of the greatest dangers the Nation faced was "factions" and strove to avoid them and their partisianship. It was in that sense that the Court was considered non-political unaffected by partisian bias.
The virtual absence of political impeachments of judges since that time is evidence that this interpretation is still operative. Nixon's certain impeachment and conviction is an example of the process being above politics. It was an operation of both parties. Clinton's was an example of politics intruding and stopping the process. Jefferson unwisely and unsuccessfully attempted to make the Chase case political. This caused the Federalists to rally around him.
Jefferson is not considered a Founder in the strict sense since he was not a member of the Constitutional Convention and his understanding of the document is suspect at best and completely unworkable at worst. His attempt on Chase is evidence that the political motivation of an impeachment was not acceptable at least at that time. I admit that the Founders' idealism that the courts stay outside of politics and the Congress avoid it wrt impeachments may be too optimistic or mistaken.
It is interesting that Hamilton, normally the most realistic of men wrt the motivations and designs of men utterly misunderestimated the judiciary becoming so powerful and so willing to re-write law to its own image.
But the interesting question here is why did the judiciary reject its conservative bias. Jefferson was not worried about the judiciary because it was liberal but precisely because he feared it would be a force for conservativism which it was. But it was designed to be out of the control of the political system and to change very slowly. While the political figures, Congressmen and the Presidency can be changed with varying degrees of frequency from two to four to six years COULD complete a total turnover of the government the courts lifetime appointment should make them the most conservative of the branches. What happened?
#605 - Bingo!
You hit it right!
I'll pray for you.
sw
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