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DeLay Pledges Contempt Charge for Terri Judge
NewsMax ^ | 3/18/05 | Limbacher

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."


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chooselife; contempt; cultureofdeath; delay; eugenics; impeachgreer; judge; judgegreer; parentsrights; schiavo; terri; terrischiavo; terrischindler; tomdelay; weloveyouterri
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To: sinkspur
Then, why didn't the Schindlers get a guardian who would do this?

Perhaps because Terri was/is married to Michael, and her parents couldn't do anything about a guardian as long as she was married to this guy.

361 posted on 03/18/2005 6:10:52 PM PST by vox_freedom (Fear no evil)
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To: Postman

Sorry folks, this witness has an excuse. She was busy with medical kill-o-therapy.


362 posted on 03/18/2005 6:11:29 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: Servant of the 9
Can it be proved in a court of law?

The only answer to that is a court of law has refused to allow the prosecutor to investigate the case.

Given that, it probably can be proved in a court of law.

363 posted on 03/18/2005 6:12:01 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: syriacus
The power is vested in the spouse by the people.

I am my mother's health proxy.

364 posted on 03/18/2005 6:12:25 PM PST by syriacus (Serial philanderers, like Peterson + Schiavo, should NOT be allowed to kill the wives they betrayed)
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To: Servant of the 9

Where will you get your "shoulds" if not anchored ultimately in God? It is like trying to dance in quicksand.


365 posted on 03/18/2005 6:12:29 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: Servant of the 9
I can take all the other CRAP the death zealots post on the Terri threads, I can ignore that stuff, but I'm only going to tell you this once:

Don't Mock GOD

It's just not wise, and certainly not in standing with the core values of this fine website.

366 posted on 03/18/2005 6:12:41 PM PST by kimmie7 (Hooking up a feeding tube is no different than bringing a tray to a hospital room. Easier, in fact.)
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To: sinkspur
Florida law explicitly allows guardians to file for divorce on behalf of disabled wards

Then, why didn't the Schindlers get a guardian who would do this? What kind of attorneys have these people had, if the law provides for this?

Because Terri doesn't have an honest guardian. She has the Monster, and he refuses to give up his guardianship. And Greer refuses to allow the parent's motions challenging guardianship to move forward.

Why don't they do it now? Are they forced to use "cause" lawyers who will work for free?

The parents filed a motion in 2002 to remove the Monster as guardian. Judge Greer has prepetually stalled it.

367 posted on 03/18/2005 6:13:04 PM PST by supercat ("Though her life has been sold for corrupt men's gold, she refuses to give up the ghost.")
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To: FL_engineer
Yes the sickening trolls are here to dance on Terri's grave

And their 'opinion', their insults and slander, are not stricken. But suggest 'W' might have intervened himself, after his nice speech on the matter, and one might be struck from a thread. It's a 'big tent'. But the glee shown by some in some dark corner, I find insulting. A woman is starving to death!

368 posted on 03/18/2005 6:13:10 PM PST by sevry
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To: deport

People so concerned with the laws of Florida should take note that adultery is still against the law there.

I think having had 2 children with another woman not his wife would certainly qualify as adultery. hmmmmmmmmm?


369 posted on 03/18/2005 6:14:38 PM PST by kimmie7 (Hooking up a feeding tube is no different than bringing a tray to a hospital room. Easier, in fact.)
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To: syriacus
The power is vested in the spouse by the people.

In certain circumstances, right?.

Yes, if the other can't make their will known, and if it can't be proved in court the spouse is the one who shut them up, and if the spouse isn't mentally incompetent, and if the doctors and judge agree.

So9

370 posted on 03/18/2005 6:14:46 PM PST by Servant of the 9 (Goldwater Republican)
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To: FL_engineer

"They are neither man nor woman. They are ghouls." -- Edgar Allen Poe


371 posted on 03/18/2005 6:14:49 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: Servant of the 9

All of which are vulnerable to relativistic thinking. If there is no backstop in God, then where is there?


372 posted on 03/18/2005 6:15:35 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: Dog Gone

I think the bill just gives federal courts jurisdiction to vet the person's federal rights. Of course, they will be found no violation of federal rights. It is a time buying measure, but I would think constitutional. What is needed is a state or federal law that nourishment cannot be denied without a written living will. What is wrong with that?


373 posted on 03/18/2005 6:15:58 PM PST by Torie
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To: vox_freedom; jwalsh07
Perhaps because Terri was/is married to Michael, and her parents couldn't do anything about a guardian as long as she was married to this guy.

You mean her husband gets to make the decisions? Did you get that walsh?

374 posted on 03/18/2005 6:16:13 PM PST by sinkspur ("Preach the gospel. If necessary, use words.")
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To: Servant of the 9
Yes, if the other can't make their will known

Has the judge asked Terri?

375 posted on 03/18/2005 6:16:21 PM PST by syriacus (Serial philanderers, like Peterson + Schiavo, should NOT be allowed to kill the wives they betrayed)
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To: kimmie7

I think having had 2 children with another woman not his wife would certainly qualify as adultery.



Yep may do so but still doesn't make a common law wife situation as was being bantied about.


376 posted on 03/18/2005 6:17:15 PM PST by deport (You know you are getting older when everything either dries up or leaks.)
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To: Drango

In case you didn't notice,

THERE IS A LIFE AT STAKE IN THIS CASE!

A young woman's murder has been ordered by the court.


377 posted on 03/18/2005 6:17:51 PM PST by Badray (Quinn's First Law -- Liberalism ALWAYS generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.)
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To: Republic
"SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO PUT GREER and MICHAEL and FELOS BEHIND BARS."

But if they arrest them, what if they want to make a deal? Who knows who else could end up behind bars if they decide to sing. I'm just surprised that someone who is an out-of-state relative of a person with considerable means who ended up destitute after getting a guardian in Pinellas hasn't come forward to tell their tale.

378 posted on 03/18/2005 6:17:52 PM PST by penowa
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To: muawiyah
Can it be proved in a court of law?

The only answer to that is a court of law has refused to allow the prosecutor to investigate the case.

A prosecutor has a hundred ways around that if he wants to, and he would if he thought he really had a case and not just some campaign publicity.

Given that, it probably can be proved in a court of law.

Given that, it's probably all just blowing smoke.

SO9

379 posted on 03/18/2005 6:18:01 PM PST by Servant of the 9 (Goldwater Republican)
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To: Servant of the 9
and if it can't be proved in court the spouse is the one who shut them up,

or someone stonewalls an investigation.

380 posted on 03/18/2005 6:18:11 PM PST by syriacus (Serial philanderers, like Peterson + Schiavo, should NOT be allowed to kill the wives they betrayed)
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