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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: Chuckster

Chuckster's right about the Huckster


61 posted on 03/18/2005 4:50:36 PM PST by sofaman
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To: My2Cents

Judge Greer's frenzy to have Terri killed sure raises red flags. Makes no sense, unless he has been bribed, blackmailed, a power thing or in some other vested interest. He apparently get a high or something from having Terri suffer a terrible death.


62 posted on 03/18/2005 4:50:49 PM PST by Dante3
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To: atruelady

hey yeah, I like Froot Loops


63 posted on 03/18/2005 4:51:01 PM PST by Fudd Fan (MaryJo Kopechne needed an "exit strategy")
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

And FYI, CNN just finished a puff piece bio on Greer, with his recent campaign manager actually saying that 'if they made a movie about Judge Greer, that someone like Gary Cooper should play Greer', I'm not kidding, this demented beeotch actually said that.


64 posted on 03/18/2005 4:51:11 PM PST by Mad Mammoth (ACTUALLY)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
"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."

Yeah, and so does the USSC. It will be easy for you to put this "little judge" in his place. Once done, how about going after the big boys and girl who are using international law and mores to make Constitutional decisions. Then I'll believe you're serious.

65 posted on 03/18/2005 4:51:15 PM PST by A Navy Vet
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Bless you, Mr. Delay.

May this be the first shot fired in a war to rein in the renegade judiciary.


66 posted on 03/18/2005 4:51:27 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
"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.

I hope Delay has the cajones to go through with it.

67 posted on 03/18/2005 4:51:50 PM PST by lawgirl (Please support me as I walk 60 miles in 3 days to support breast cancer research! (see my profile!))
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To: A Navy Vet
Talk is cheap Delay. And while you're at it, you may want to start looking at other judical monkeyshines.

Yep. They've always been long on words, short on results.

68 posted on 03/18/2005 4:52:11 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (You have a //cuckoo// God given right //Yeeeahrgh!!// to be an //Hello?// atheist)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

I have a lot of contempt for the POS Greer myself.


69 posted on 03/18/2005 4:52:19 PM PST by Jenya (A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes ~ Mark Twain)
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To: sport
Can't John Edwards just meet with Terri and Channel for her the way he does in courts for deceased people in front of jurys. I thought he speaks for those who cannot when the medical community has harmed them?

Where is the senator when you need him?

70 posted on 03/18/2005 4:52:21 PM PST by blackdog (Lord of Woop Woop)
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To: Dog Gone

What bearing does that have? When doesn't the liberal judiciary create legislation at will?


71 posted on 03/18/2005 4:52:58 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection (www.whatyoucrave.com)
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To: Dante3

"Greer's frenzy to have Terri killed sure raises red flags. Makes no sense, unless he has been bribed, blackmailed, a power thing or in some other vested interest."

Has to be all of the above, IMO. Certainly there's $$$ involved. But from where?


72 posted on 03/18/2005 4:53:12 PM PST by Fudd Fan (MaryJo Kopechne needed an "exit strategy")
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

DeLay is telling it like it is. Why wait until morning then to do something? Or will anything ever be done?


73 posted on 03/18/2005 4:53:32 PM PST by Theodore R. (Terri has already outlived Eleanor Centzone, but time is running out.)
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To: atruelady
Look, Judge Greer wants to see Mrs. Schiavo dead, so turnabout really is fair play.

At the same time Greer has to recognize that his brand of judicial arrogance is bringing the entire judiciary into disrepute. Although I referred to Brian Gene Nichols in jest (since it's unlikely he will get out again), the thing is virtually no one has expressed any outrage that a sitting judge was murdered at the bar of justice.

For the most part no one cares about these guys anymore. In their effort to elevate themselves to the level of demi-gods they have managed only to dehumanize themselves.

74 posted on 03/18/2005 4:53:33 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

I once posted years ago (on the old MSNBC bulletin boards) that liberalism=death. At the time, I was highly vilified for doing so, but now it appears that I have been vindicated. May God rescue Terri Schiavo.


75 posted on 03/18/2005 4:53:35 PM PST by KStorm (Post-modern politics is another name for unplanned insanity.)
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To: lawgirl

I'm not holding my breath on any of this. Talk is cheap. Maybe I'm just a little cynical. An dsick and tired of the talk with no walk.


76 posted on 03/18/2005 4:53:42 PM PST by sofaman
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

I'd love to see Bush coming charging in on his horse and save the day. What's he got to lose? He's not up for re-election.


77 posted on 03/18/2005 4:53:51 PM PST by Jenya (A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes ~ Mark Twain)
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To: Dog Gone
I normally adore everything Tom DeLay does, but he's letting emotion instead of logic speak here. It's an empty threat.

Don't be too sure about that my FRiend. ;)

78 posted on 03/18/2005 4:53:54 PM PST by Mad Mammoth
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To: Dog Gone
However, DeLay is smoking crack if he thinks Greer can be held in contempt.

That's what Jonathan Turley said on FOXNEWS. The Judiciary will quash the subpoena, especially since these hearings were largely a sham.

If Congress was so hot to do something, why did DeLay wait 'til the last minute? This date has been out there for a month.

Think there might be just a tad bit of grandstanding going on here?

79 posted on 03/18/2005 4:54:06 PM PST by sinkspur ("Preach the gospel. If necessary, use words.")
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