Posted on 03/18/2005 4:32:07 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay pledged Friday to hold Florida state judge George Greer in contempt of Congress for ignoring a congressional subpoena for Terri Schiavo's testimony, saying, "No little judge sitting in a state district court in Florida is going to usurp the authority of Congress."
"The Congress will pursue this, if we have to hold him in contempt of Congress," DeLay told radio host Sean Hannity.
Pressed on whether he intended to hold Judge Greer in contempt, the top Republican told Hannity: "Absolutely, absolutely."
"We will do everything to enforce the power and authority of the Congress and no little judge sitting in a state district court in Florida is going to usurp the authority of Congress," he added.
Earlier in the day Judge Greer rebuffed the Schiavo subpoena, telling attorneys in the case, "I have had no cogent reason why the [congressional] committee should intervene." He claimed that the last-minute action on the part of Congress does not nullify years of legal proceedings.
But DeLay told Hannity, "This judge and the Supreme Court of Florida are well known to be liberal judges that have a different worldview and they're imposing their worldview on the law."
The top House leader said that "no sane person" could look at Schiavo and say she's in a persistent vegetative state.
DeLay called a lawyer for Michael Schiavo, who has pressed for years to have his wife starved to death, "the personification of evil."
One slimy liberal judge should not have this much power!
And cause years of pain to thousands who wanted to die.
So9
And want to die so strongly they can't bother to either write or videotape their wishes.
Even take a lie detector test and I would be willing to say okay, pull the plug. But, he hasn't done that to my knowledge.
Michael told Larry King he didn't see any reason to take a lie detector test.
Look, you're the one who brought it up by making a false claim. If you don't want to be called on a false claim, then don't make one. If you don't want to talk about states' rights, then don't bring up the subject of states rights.
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Of course, if we respected "states rights," blacks would still be picking cotton on Massa's farm.
Earlier I was questioned about state's rights and mentioned gay marriage. The voters are electing representatives to make legislative decisions. They do so only to have courts overturn them. The legislative process then has been removed from the people. The judicial monkeys step in and create laws to their own satisfaction and if anyone intervenes, including Congress or the President, they hiss (rhymes with) at them. My point was how far medically can we take this decision before genocide becomes the norm?
And no one read's you your Miranda rights.
You have the right to remain silent.
You have the right to an attorney being present before any questioning.
If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you.
ANYTHING you say CAN and WILL be used against you in a court of law.
I agree,it seems to be the situation. My point was exactly that,in many different cases the State has stepped in to override the wishes of a guardian,I believe here the State is trying to do that but for some reason this Greer judge refuses to let the State intervene.
If Dirty Harry had stepped in as Delay did and requested the same, what would Geer's reaction have been?
The value of a Living Will now, or 15 years ago was great.
The value of a Living Will under the new Federal Law will be almost nill.
Vastly different circumstances.
SO9
A living will just like any other will is subject to review and adjudication as to its legality and intent.Living wills were never above judicial review.
How does declaring that in the absense of a living will in tangible form (written, video, etc.), a judge cannot accept contested hearsay without oversight, in any way interfere with the honoring of tangible living wills when they actually exist?
Under existing "law", a murderous guardian, an unscrupulous lawyer and cooperative judge can sentence to death any ward who is sufficiently incapacitated that he can be drugged enough to appear PVS. Does this not seen dangerously wrong?
Unfortunately.
Damnable government interference in personal business.
So9
Suppose you're incapacitated and an heir shows up with a "living will" that says you want to be starved to death. The will happens to resemble their handwriting much more strongly than yours. Should a court accept the document at face value, or should it allow examination of its authenticity?
The law does more than that. It requires great specificity in a valid Living Will so that I believe a person will have to enumerate each of tens of thousands of possible exact medical conditions and specify treatment in each instance, and be completely invalid if the condition is not exactly described.
It then gives any relative you have, no matter how distant, how hostile, or how strange, the right to challenge it's aplicability to present conditions in Federal Court, which will take years.
So9
It then gives any relative you have, no matter how distant, how hostile, or how strange, the right to challenge it's aplicability to present conditions in Federal Court, which will take years.
And how would you like to see the law written?
Suppose you're incapacitated and an heir shows up with a "living will" that says you want to be starved to death. The will happens to resemble their handwriting much more strongly than yours. Should a court accept the document at face value, or should it allow examination of its authenticity?
Authenticate, yes.
Interpret or invalidate, no.
Word for word literalism.
So9
And in the event that doctors disagree about some critical aspect of your condition, what then?
Outlawing "assisted suicide" falls well withing a legitmate reason -- the MOST legitmate reason -- reason for founding any government. That is: to protect the weak and otherwise helpless.
Liberty first requires life. To preserve the freedom to contract, to trade and to own property, we must first protect the lives of the weak from the brutish. Otherwise the brutish take all other liberties away.
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