Posted on 03/18/2005 10:41:59 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
Greer gives order
Some of us do need to read the Constitution. And some - like you - need to read up on this case.
I think we'll see a lot of things happening today. I will continure to pray.
About what?
How is she brain dead?
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
I would suspect that the attorneys for the committee are on the way to the Federal Court now.
Barbara Weller has been with Terri all day and Barbara states that Teri communicated she wanted to live.
BC-Brain-Damaged Woman, 10th Ld,0164
URGENT
Judge allows removal of feeding tube for brain-damaged Florida woman, despite congress efforts
Eds: UPDATES with judge saying feeding tube can be removed.
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By MITCH STACY
Associated Press Writer
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (AP) -- The presiding judge in the case of Terri Schiavo ruled Friday that the feeding tube keeping the brain-damaged woman alive can be removed despite efforts by congressional Republicans to block the move by seeking her appearance at hearings.
Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer refused a request from U.S. House attorneys to delay the removal, which he had previously ordered to take place at 1 p.m. EST. Greer determined that it should go forward about an hour after another judge issued a temporary delay blocking the tube's removal.
There was no immediate word on when the tube might be removed.
It certainly sounds like it to me.
I am not a lawyer or a politician, and maybe a state judge or a governor can defy a branch of the federal government, but Governor Wallace certainly didn't succeed.
You better look up what "brain dead" is. Nothing worse than a nimrod who thinks he knows what he's talking about and knows half of little
I don't like the congressional issuing of the subpoenas either. Totally a misuse of congressioanl power. However Greer has really stepped in sh-t here. The congressional subpoenas provide an order of protection to the witness. This is now the feds interfering in a state matter any longer. It is a state judge essentially killing a witness and it will not stand. Regardless, of how absurd it is for her to go testify, he now was powerless to remove the feeding tube until March 28, when she would fail to show up for the hearing.
Rush just reported that Greer turned away the attorney for the U.S. House of Reps and ordered the removal of the tube to proceed.
He's has enough pride to be so.
Jeb should send in the staties. He would be fully justified in doing so.
A "doctor" on Dayside said it's not starvation as we know it. Terri has no feelings. Oh, she may feel uncomfortable as her tongue swells and her mouth dries but they fix that with an oral spray and vaseline on her lips. She won't be in pain. Don't you feel comforted? Wonder if this "doctor" is a member of the Hemlock Society.
Why won't the judge allow oral feeding then? One of the reports I read said Terri CAN swallow. The Judge has barred her from being fed orally.
Call and tell them how you feel:
Representative F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-WI)
Office: 202-225-5101
Fax: 202-225-3190
Representative J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL)
Office: 202-225-2976
Fax: 202-225-0697
Representative Tom DeLay (R-TX)
Office: 202-225-5951
Fax: 202-225-5241
He was probably having a big lunch (with Michael). That's why he was late to the conference.
That is what I think to. Delay said this wasn't over and by golly I trust him!
Maybe Kavorkian will have his "soul mate" coming to keep him company?
The culture of death wins another round....
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