Posted on 05/09/2005 5:36:58 AM PDT by Theodore R.
Republican judges killed Terri
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: May 9, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern
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There's a good reason congressional Republicans will not hold investigative hearings on the judicial homicide of Terri Schiavo.
Republican judges killed her, just as surely as the Democrat judges did.
This is the dirty little secret that would be uncovered if Republican lawmakers scratched beneath the surface of how and why the 11th Circuit ignored the will of the people and the U.S. Congress and the president of the United States in refusing a full review of her case as decided by Republican county Judge George Greer.
While much attention has been placed on the fact that U.S. District Judge James Whittemore, a Bill Clinton appointee, twice violated the will of Congress in refusing the review, less attention has been focused on the fact that every single Republican appointee on the 11th Circuit supported his decision.
The only dissenter was Charles R. Wilson, a Bill Clinton appointee.
All six judges nominated by President Ronald Reagan, President George H.W. Bush and President George W. Bush, including William Pryor – who was recess-appointed just last year to avoid a Democratic filibuster – voted not to save Terri's life.
All six!
This fact was brought to my attention by Denver radio talk-show host Bob Enyart, who is urging those who care about life in this country to reconsider their strategy of electing Republican politicians to appoint them.
It's an idea worth considering.
But it is also critical to understand there will be no accountability for judges of either party who ignore the law.
Let's recall why President Bush was in such a hurry to appoint Pryor in the first place.
He had done the president's dirty work in removing Judge Roy Moore from his lawful seat as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court over the Ten Commandments monument.
It was Pryor who upheld U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson's order to remove the monument or remove Moore from his elected office. In what can only be viewed as a reward – a quid pro quo – Pryor, unlike many other far more qualified Bush nominees to the federal bench, was promoted to the 11th Circuit.
There, he joined five other Republican colleagues who denied Terri Schiavo her right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I don't know what the answer is, but it is clear the solution to getting better judges is not simply voting Republican.
In fact, as the Terri Schiavo case demonstrates, the fact that all six Republican-appointed judges on the 11th Circuit flouted the law and the will of the people in this case and the fact that the Republicans in the U.S. Congress fear to hold them accountable, it is perhaps less likely that we will solve this problem by just voting Republican.
I'm certainly not suggesting Democrats will solve it. Surely, they will only make it worse. What I am suggesting is that we have a completely unaccountable judiciary in this country. The judges have become the lawmakers. It really doesn't seem to make much difference who appoints them.
Let's suppose Democrats appoint bad judges 99 percent of the time. And let's suppose Republicans appoint bad judges 75 percent of the time. Can we really clean up the judiciary by electing people who are going to appoint bad judges most of the time?
I don't think so.
I don't pretend to have the answers.
But I think I have a firm grasp of the problem.
When was the last time anyone fixed a problem without recognizing its true nature?
As usual, the people are going to have to lead. Don't leave it to the politicians to fix the mess. They won't do it.
the problem is that even the Republican judges are liberals. There is virtually no such thing as a conservative trial lawyer, and judges tend to be chosen from the ranks of trial lawyers.
The solution is dumping the two-party system in favor of the open elections envisioned by the founding fathers of this nation. Then elect conservative representives to State legislatures, and return the appointment of Senators to them.
Repeal the twelfth, sixteenth, seventeenth, twenty-third and twenty-sixth Amendments to the Constitution. Repealing a bad Amendment has precedent. Bad law helps no one but the lawyers. And ultimately, by destroying confidence in the law, it hurts them.
The only dissenter was Charles R. Wilson, a Bill Clinton appointee.
All six judges nominated by President Ronald Reagan, President George H.W. Bush and President George W. Bush, including William Pryor – who was recess-appointed just last year to avoid a Democratic filibuster – voted not to save Terri's life.
All six!
Does anyone really think that putting conservative judges, who are "suppose" to interpret the Constitution as Republican "constructionists", will cure the Judiciary of its activism?
...there will be no accountability for judges of either party who ignore the law.
Judges will always act as though they are above the law, and above the will of the people, no matter what party they may come from. There's no guarantee that Republican judges, appointed to federal courts or the Supreme Court, will act any better than those elitists we have there now.
Judges need to be held accountable to the Congress, and if the guys we now have in the Congress can't do the job then we need new blood that CAN handle the job.
Farah, and the emotionally disabled, are not 'we the people'.
It really makes me wonder why all the Rats are bothering to fillibuster judges at all.
The Constitution doesn't protect disabled or pre-born life. It does, however, protect the life of a 17-year old murderer. Can't you read? It's all there. Just ask the judges.
Sure, you're right. Kill Terri Schiavo. It's the law. </sarcasm>
Sure I'm right, but let's fix the law.
For some reason this little fact has been left off Sean's and Rush's talking points memo.
Very Interesting.
Theodore, I'm the guy who Joseph Farah will interview today about pro-life Republican presidents packing the federal judiciary with pro-abortion Republican judges. Please consider reading my Open Letter to James Dobson at KGOV.com (http://kgov.com/docs/OpenLtrDobsonJudges.html). Thanks, -Bob Enyart
That's: http://kgov.com/docs/OpenLtrDobsonJudges.html
Thanks.
bttt
Also what I've learned in recent months is that my state Senator Jim King is a liberal. Pubs voted for him so the dem wouldn't win and we ended up losing in the long run. Terri lost more than anyone else! King claims he ran as a moderate but I don't remember that and can't find his old campaign site online even via google. Frustrating for me cause I can find just about anything.
ping
Well it won't be fixed in FL until after the next election I think. For an optimist this is not easy to accept. Sen Jim King will NoT allow "his legacy" to be unwritten.
Which amendment granted women the vote?
I say repeal that one.
Women are stupid, emotional, flighty creatures who in many cases are incapable of reason, and in the rest of the cases refuse to engage in it.
End women's suffrage! Hasn't America suffered enough?
is wnd still a reliable news source?
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