DeLay Pledges Contempt Charge for Terri Judge

NewsMax ^ | 3/18/05 | Limbacher

[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."

[JFK_Lib]

Should we just ignore the judiciary?

We should ignore amoral cretins that would prefer to starve people to death inorder to obey the letter of the law, and that is for certain. Or else we are no better than Beria and Himmler.

[jwalsh07]

Right, I'll call someone competent.

You wouldn't know competent if it crawled up your ass and ripped your tonsils out.

[Servant of the 9]

So you see you know nothing. In fact, I wouldn't do it if somebody asked me to. I also find that selfish.

I think it is incredibly selfish to hold someone who wants to go for your own twisted self-righteousness. I did what my father asked of me. A dutiful son does.

So9

[The Red Zone]

Should the other two branches, when in agreement about a constitutional issue, simply bow down before it?

This is what they have done for decades and as a result they have been led by the nose down lunacy lane.

[muawiyah]

We know who Republicans are by their comments. That's why they don't need to make that claim.

You, my friend, are a TROLL.

[Servant of the 9]

who did absolutely nothing to save herself when she could have

Such as planning a divorce but only a little too late?

Close only counts in horseshoes and handgrenades.

So9

[nickcarraway]

However, DeLay is smoking crack if he thinks Greer can be held in contempt. There's a major separation of powers issue, not to mention that the judicial branch would the one who would be asked to adjudicate the issue.

It's certainly not an easy thing, but is it impossible, or should it be? Can a judge defy Congress on everything? Does separation of powers only apply in the judiciary's favor? BTW, the Constitution doesn't give the branchs equal powers, ultimately Congress has the big stick, if they choose it.

[cajungirl]

Here is what is bothering me.

This whole case is fraught with misinformation and confusion. The public is all involved, judges, now congress.

To me the central question is that if she did not have her wishes known {I have my doubts that living wills anticipate any and all of the circumstances anyway}, but if she did not, we assume that a spouse is the person who could be a stand in. I trust absolutely my husband to do that. But I trust the husband I am living with now.

So is Michael the husband that she might have trusted, is he the same husband that would logically make these kinds of decisions. All the evidence is that he is not. So his status as the guardian is very iffy in my mind.

If my husband were living another life, with another woman, I would not trust him to make decisions in my interest. That bothers me a lot, that he is the driving force, using the law and assumptions about his dedication to her best interests, assumptions that the law makes, that may be totally wrong. I also have great problems with withholding food and water. I would rather, if that is what is to be done, to have active euthanasia. But nobody can know, really, what this woman would want. And nobody being able to say that with certainty means to me, that the choice should be to preserve life, do therapy and hope for the best. She does not appear to be suffering.

[TheHound]

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.

The point is, if you want to help her, then you must act (God helps them who help themselves). Get it?

[freecopper01]

Postman, My husband and I thought the same thing. Anyone who harms a potential witness can be charged with interference and obstruction of justice. We think (non-lawyers, folks) that even if he refused the papers, that knowing they were being issued to cover Terri puts him in the 'contempt' category. Hope so, at any rate.

[Servant of the 9]

The point is... prepared to get starved. A death clan.

You mean a non Roman Catholic non Fundamentalist clan?

So9

[The Red Zone]

The states can't get away with denying a federal constitutional right. Congress is jumping in at the right time, when it has become clear that Florida will do nothing.

[Tailgunner Joe]

In the case of Moore, I argued that he should defy what I believe was an unconstitutional and illegal order, but that he should be prepared to accept the consequences of that act.

Greer ignored a congressional subpoena and he should also face the consequences. He is in contempt and should be removed from office.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Delay is an upstanding Representative. I think he better tone down his power grabbing rhetoric a few notches before it comes back to bite him.

[Shortstop7]

Most trolls do. I came to this thread to try to find some information.

Sinkspur and Servant's posts are a waste of my time.

I am so sad for Terri...and reading their cruel posts just disgusts me. Which I am quite sure pleases them to no end.

It's a shame.

[The Red Zone]

A no-respect-for-God-in-any-shape-or-form-clan? If that's what you mean, yes.

[JFK_Lib]

So you think that a spouse should be allowed to starve the other to death if they are incapacitated and have difficulty speaking?

[Jrabbit]

That's why it's best to ignore them.

[Servant of the 9]

You wouldn't know competent if it crawled up your ass and ripped your tonsils out.

Why, I do believe that is personal invective.

What happened?
Run out of inteligent things to say?

So9