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."
Today is certainly one of those times.
Our nation is letting this happen. We are letting this happen. God have mercy on us all.
A better question. Since when is it the business of the courts to pass legislation?
Send the US Marshals to take Judge Greer into custody NOW!!!
I read someone's comments recently (maybe here on FR) that it has something to do with Medicare fraud...a big industry in Florida, apparently. The wrong person is suffering today.
It is not just the food. They give her drugs for pain. THOSE are what make you loopy.
D'Amato is an embarrassment as a Republican. He deserved to be retired. Typical NE RINO, very large ego, not particularly high IQ, and with a penchant for backroom deals with the other side of the aisle.
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Think there might be just a tad bit of grandstanding going on here?
Sadly, I completely agree with your comments.
All of them share one agenda - $
Sadly, I think you're 100% correct.
Delay better mean it. If Congress allows Greer and loving husband to p** all over a congressional subpoena, they will reap the whirlwind.
Subpeonas so vital to getting themselves on tv won't be worth the paper they're written on. Everyone will flip them off in the future - the baseball players should have anyway.
And for the record - Congress should act because it's the right thing to do, but that doesn't seem to be getting it done so maybe reminding them what's at stake for themselves personally will move them.
The likely outcome of De Lay's grandstanding, if he persists in this attempt, is a confrontation that reaffirms the independecne of the state and federal judiciary from this sort of interference; I'd bet dimes to dollars that there is not a single SC Justice would will continence this.
Perish the thought! (/sarcasm)
It already has in the striking down of Terri's Law by the Florida Supreme Court.
You utterly dismiss that, for reasons that I can only imagine. The fact that liberal judges legislate from the bench is a red herring. While it's wrong, of course, it has nothing to do with the validity of the separation of powers argument.
What about murder/attempted murder of a federal witness?
that is true. but it is also the problem here, the issue is really bigger then this case alone (not that this case isn't important mind you). the judiciary, all the way up the line to the SCOTUS, is going to act to back this "little judge" when they come after him; because by helping him, they are protecting their own turf. and the courts are very powerful in this country - the media has had years to dupe the sheeple into thinking the judiciary is some kind of imperial body, an infallible american monarchy that cannot be questioned. that ignorance amongst americans makes this an uphill fight for our political leaders. not that they shouldn't fight mind you, but I am willing to cut them some slack if in the end, they can't save this woman.
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