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."
It's not the husbands decision. But you clowns don't know enough to know that.
Have you heard or seen what Ron Paul, the great Libertarian, stance is on this issue?
I've always liked Tom DeLay, but his arrogance here is overwhelming.
I see....thank you very much for your reply.
It's a terrible shame, isn't it?... that one judge can block the entire power and will of the Government and the vast majority of the world.
"States have the right to decide if homosexuals can marry?"
We have a very basic sort of decision about the extent of state sovereignty to make here, and as a practical matter we don't get to have it both ways.
You can't be serious. There's no "state sovereignty" notion that countenances states being able to kill innocent people.
Ergo, my preferred answers:
1. No.
2. Yes.
Why don't we "get to have it both ways"?
I'm having a hard time even keeping up with the people who've responded to me already on this thread, but by the time I got to your post, your nurses were little red Xs
Talk is CHEAP, mister DeLay. And all we've seen from the (R) party is talk.
You've known this day was coming for 3 weeks. Don't act like you couldn't have gotten it done.
But the Federales won't get off their tush and act until their massas in the black robes say okay.
Well, that's a matter for debate. The assumption was made that the Gonzales' were not going to willingly turn Elian over, and that he had to be seized.
While I didn't like the way it looked, that assumption was pretty much on target.
My thoughts as well. Where is the re-invented woman?
And there's even more evidence that Michael is trying to prevent any impertial observers from seeing if she's "in there". Pretty darmed alarm-bell-level suspicious.
Go, Delay!!!!!!!!!! When?!!!!
I have lost all respect for Tom Delay.
If that's true, why hasn't the State of Florida arrested Michael Schiavo?
sinkspur, Janet Reno and the lawyers were negotiating with Elian'f lawyers and family when they barged in.
SHHHHHH! I know that.
The degenerates threats won't help an innocent woman. Talk. talk simply talk. This poor woman today. God knows who in the future.
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