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."
Two things bother me a great deal in this situation.
First, from personal experience only last year I am stunned at the medical profession's iron grip on 'patient's right to choose to die'. If they don't think there is a good trade off between treatment and death they'll take every statement or hesitance as a request to be shuffled off to hospice or just cut off.
I have known persons to rationally elect to stop treatment but I also had to fight the doctors who had [probably erroneously] diagnosed Alzheimer's but wanted to accept a "No" response to the smallest element of treatment as coming from a rational person.
Second, this judge interprets marriage, obviously not a good marriage, as irrevocably severing the wife's connection with her blood relatives. I wonder if he'd be upset if a woman separated from an abusive husband and moved back in with her folks, and who he would grant control over her treatment in the event she fell ill after wards?
The thought that 'our' courts would honor an alleged statement to a husband now working on his second family, one who has failed to carry out the basic treatment and therapy he was charged with overseeing, over the parent's simple desire to attempt rehabilitation chills me down to the bone. We are fighting a belief system in the middle east that gives the husband total rights over his wife's being - that's one of the things held up as being wrong with islam; but an American judge is doing precisely the same thing today in Florida?
Yes he did!
Of course you can "prove" she said it right? (While there is sworn testimony that she said the opposite. You are aware of that, right?)
So you think Moses was a liar?
Did you read Deuteronomy 27 and 28 or not?
If so then you must think Moses was a liar.
God does indeed bless us for doing good and curse us for doing evil.
Why do you have a problem with that simple truth and the Bible?
Why not post a link(s) to this instead of filling the thread? Please.
Gee I don't know, but thanks for your insightful and helpful input.
When do men ever listen to what women say anyway? :) If Terri said anything alleged by Michael he probably wouldn't have been listening. He was probably lost in thought about some other woman.
It's all about him (Michael Schiavo). Everything he says is about him. Everything. Worse than Scott Peterson. Worse than OJ Simpson.
The US Congress doesn't have impeachment power over a State judge such as Judge Greer.
Still kind of fuzzy on where Congress gets the power to be dragging people in front of a committee for something that is beyond their constitutional authority.
The judge should be impeached. This judge thinks he's God!
At least as insightful as your exchange about eating his bowler hat if Delay actually acts. Why condemn the guy before he is finished? Let's see what he is able to do this weekend. And I have a problem condemming Congress for acting late. This matter should have been resolved at the state level, and would have were it in another state. Given Florida's failing Govenor and Legislature it is now precisely time for decisive Federal action. Florida is full of weird crap these days. Worse than Mass. or CA.
This Judge needs to have his "feeding tube" removed.
http://www.theempirejounal.com
I wanted to read the link you provided and it says it cannot be found. What was it about?
GOOD.
DeLay called a lawyer for Michael Schiavo, who has pressed for years to have his wife starved to death, "the personification of evil."
About time someone said it publicly.
AH now I see your problem, lack of understanding. If you try again you may note that the hat comment was NOT mine. I posed the word noted so that when DeLay, my Congressman BTW, comes through, I can remind the guy to get started on his hat.
Trusting the robes to get it right is a very serious judgmental error
Oh good, we can't trust the 'robes'. When they decide we just go around it, is that it? No matter what. Who should make the decisions in a court of law in situations like this then? You know, I agree, let's just scratch out Article III to the Constitution. Better George Bush and whatever Republican 'we' worship deem what's best for us than some judge.
Shortstop7, I am very saddened and frustrated by adulterous husbands who have abandoned their handicapped and defenseless wives and seal their fate with alleged stories about their final wishes which cannot be substantiated but only through his forked tongue.
What is even more cruel than the barbaric punishment of her death order is the judge, a mere mortal man, who with a stroke of his pen condemns an innocent woman to the most torturous death by starvation.
For what reason? I'd never want my husband or any man to hold that power over me.
The problem with sinkspur and Servant's posts I believe are that they think the law is everything, black and white. We all know law is of mans making. Mere mortal men are not perfect nor are they always right. Thou shall not kill is of God's command.
If anything, innocent Terry is being executed without benefit of a jury of her peers, and that is the least they should have done for her. A jury of men and women who were in her dire circumstances and because they truly had loved ones, like Terry's parents and siblings, who fought for them, were able to regain their lives. Let them decide, not an adulterous husband and a judge who has lost his soul.
Sorry to be so long. I probably do not make much sense. But, how does one make sense of Terry's fate? And, you are right, "it's a shame".
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