Tyranny work just isn't easy.
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Judicial independence and impartiality are under assault from many directions these days.
Supreme Court nominees are bullied into expressing their philosophies as judicial Pablum lest one interest group or another take offense. The failure of state and federal judges to knuckle under to pressure from Congress last year on the Terri Schiavo case resulted in threats of retribution. A Maryland lawmaker even tried recently to have a Baltimore Circuit Court judge removed from office because she ruled against the state ban on gay marriage.
And now it seems no holds are barred in judicial election contests, thanks to a Supreme Court decision that struck down prohibitions on judicial candidates expressing legal and political views.
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As Judge George Greer spoke Monday, saying that legislators are "ill-equipped" to make critical right-to-die decisions, inferring that judges without medical training are, about 40 protesters appeared outside. Michael Schiavo was reportedly in the audience for Greer's presentation.
Greer claimed that 30 state and federal judges had "painstakingly" reviewed the expansive testimony and evidence submitted in the contentious case. Based on the self-serving hearsay of Schiavo and his family members and with total disregard of the testimony of Terri's parents and her closest friends, Greer determined there was clear and convincing evidence that the incapacitated woman wouldn't want to live. He didn't just order that her feeding tube be removed, he ordered that she not be given any hydration or sustenance. She died March 31, 2005, of marked dehydration, 13 days after the removal of the feeding tube.
Schiavo, Greer Advocate Court Playing God
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Had Jan Govan been allowed to respond every time the St. Pete Times smeared him while Greer was whispering in their ear, Terri'd be alive today.
Terri had many heroes including Jan Govan.
It's hard to run for office when corruption is running rampant on the other side with help from the Judicial Qualifications Commission refusing to investigate allegations of Judge Greer's ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN including his tv commercial which should have gotten him disqualified and fined back in 2004.
Investigating Greer would have been the proper thing to do but there were too many RINOS, corrupt rinos.