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."
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.
Sorry folks, this witness has an excuse. She was busy with medical kill-o-therapy.
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.
I am my mother's health proxy.
Where will you get your "shoulds" if not anchored ultimately in God? It is like trying to dance in quicksand.
It's just not wise, and certainly not in standing with the core values of this fine website.
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.
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!
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?
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
"They are neither man nor woman. They are ghouls." -- Edgar Allen Poe
All of which are vulnerable to relativistic thinking. If there is no backstop in God, then where is there?
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?
You mean her husband gets to make the decisions? Did you get that walsh?
Has the judge asked Terri?
I think having had 2 children with another woman not his wife would certainly qualify as adultery.
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.
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.
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
or someone stonewalls an investigation.
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