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."
Terri's case is an entirely different situation. An innocent woman is sentenced to a horrific death. She has been denied due process. The Judge has destroyed documents and will not allow an investigation of abuse done to her, and he has ordered no autopsy. And a Scott Peterson type of estranged husband with a live-in mistress and pathological hatred for her and her family has been assigned as her guardian.
Who is the one in b&w?
Ditto. What a contemptable little tinhorn tyrant.
Lincoln had no problem responding to the rebels at Fort Sumter ~ this President should have no greater difficulty in doing that.
It's Greer who has made himself into a traitor, and any court that sided with him should be subjected to the same treatment.
President Bush should send in the Texas Rangers, the National Guard and a few good proud and bold marines to save Terry from murder.
Can you say, "Stonewall?"
Easy to get too when "all your Federal Court judges are belong to them!"
And now we have all these trolls trying to disrupt discussion by bringing up such absurd comparisons as equating Terri's situation to gay marriage.
Hi, kimmie! You were a big part of those threads! It was fall of 2003 (sorry I don't have the date - I'm on my husband's laptop and don't have it saved on his). There was a gigantic thread - over 5,000 posts where a ton of research was posted. I'll find and post a link when I get home (Sunday).
I thought the Supremes already ruled on this? They're going to swat this request away like a fly.
Isn't that an Oxymoron?
"The professor said Judge Greer's decision was "shocking" because there isn't anything near "clear and convincing" evidence of Terri's wishes - only the husband's memory, offered years after she'd first become disabled, of a casual comment she made while watching TV."
Moreover, when people make such statements as to whether they want to live or die, they make them lightly with no real substance behind them. Often such statements are neither taken seriously by the person uttering them nor by the people who hear them.
Furthermore, if Terri did indeed make the casual statement that she wants to die in such circumstance, although I doubt it very much she did, her wish then (15 years ago?) may contradict her wishes now.
But they can impeach him!
TheEmpireJournal.com is absolutely dead on in its breathtaking connection of the dots in this HORRIFIC travesty of corruption, greed and cover-up leading to the willingness of our court system to EUTHANIZE an innocent human being.
Simply the lack of ANY TESTING for Terri in the last TWELVE years of her life, the horrific way michael has made her l with the courts permission, the MEDICAID FRAUD, all of it........SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO PUT GREER and MICHAEL and FELOS behind bars.
What's happening to Terri could happen to any one in our own families. Read this story and beware!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1365861/posts
Why does he get food if she doesn't?
"And now we have all these trolls trying to disrupt discussion by bringing up such absurd comparisons as equating Terri's situation to gay marriage."
Worse than the trolls are the long-standing, supposedly conservative Freepers (I've counted 10 or so) who are rooting for her heinous husband. It's sickening.
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