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."
Curious, isn't it? When the feds are ours, all hail the feds.
Me2;I know, this is hard to put down with so much at risk. ...'Zo'Kay.
It seems unlikely that her condition has improved given her surroundings, but how can it possibly hurt to check?
Sadly, I don't think that's going to happen unless the Court of Appeals surprises me with a reversal order.
"The Congress will pursue this, if we have to hold him in contempt of Congress," DeLay told radio host Sean Hannity.
Where is it...................................................................
I pledge - uhm - naptime.. Typical republican spinelessness.
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The woman is dying and Congress is in recess. Wait and see.. Are you serious.
"Well, at least we know where Rep. DeLay stands on states rights issues"
I agree. States trump the Feds on most issues. I think DeLay is correct on most issues, but not on this one.
The judge is a liberal scum, but nevertheless, it would seem the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution would predominate here - The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Congress did everything they legally can do. They do not have the power to override a state court decision. All they could do was give the federal courts the authority to hear the case which is what they did.
The Constitution is quite clear and Article 3 is what it is. Congress is surrendering to judicial fiat. Why can't they order the tube reinserted? Who passes this country's laws?
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