FORBIDS YOU TO READ
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."
Why is that, and why is the House Bill not a waste of time?
In most states, common law wife is dependent on length of the relationship as well as offspring.
However, you're attempting to split hairs. The core of the argument is that this "man" lives with another women, with whom he has 2 children, has announced boldly that he plans to marry her as soon as Terri dies. Such a nice boy...
I'll believe it when I see it.
I do not think spouse is clearly defined in the case of Terry Schiavo. Her husband is committing adultery. Does that make him a spouse in the purest sense of what a spouse is? And, moreoever does he still have the right to have her murdered by judicial decree for he has clearly abandoned his spousal rights, imho.
If this is the case, women have not traveled very far from the treatment they got from cavemen.
Such a law used to exist until the SCoFLA struck it down (in the Browning decision)
If Christian Piety is now a prerequisite of posting here, please let me know. I will go somewhere else.
And if you want to threaten me Kimmie, try being direct.
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No you are splitting any hairs that get split. Is there a common law wife situation per FL law or not?..... That is all I was commenting on.
I don't know personally, do you, only that I read that on some thread today. Regardless it makes no difference in the scheme of things as it stands today anyway....
Have a nice one now.
I think it all boils down to a judge who made a decision and just isn't man enough to admit to a mistake. Our outrage has now just made him mad and he doesn't want to be seen as "backing down" to pressure.
Lots of things are very sad about this case.
The facts are that the husband has been living with other women since shortly after Terri's 'accident'. FACT! WHAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND ABOUT THAT CONFLICT OF INTEREST?
Unbelievable! All the truley 'brain dead' appear in these threads.
Believing in the Judeo-Christian God of the bible, or at least refraining from openly dissing Him, is pretty much a prerequisite for being taken seriously on moral matters. As it ought to be.
< FACT! WHAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND ABOUT THAT CONFLICT OF INTEREST? >
Exactly! The LAST person who should be making decisions about her is this POS.
Thank you, Kimmie, for your fine post.
What am I missing here?
I've thought that through and I think maybe someone or something else is preventing him from backing down.
I don't think we have any control over him -- for good or bad.
I see. Amazing. What was that based on I wonder? If so, then a federal law is needed. Too late for that of course. What we have left is a procedural buy for time, but to what end I don't know, since it won't buy enough time.
It doesn't make sense. Since he's already violated his marriage vows by living with another woman and having children with her, isn't there a way to get a divorce decree to legally divorce Michael and Terri?
The Florida legislature needs to impeach Greer ASAP.
Here's another excellent Link:
http://www.theempirejournal.com
Lots of information about the corruption behind the scenes.
I'm so sad that Terri is now suffering as we sit here comfortable in our homes.
She's being held as a Prisoner in the Woodside Hospice.
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