Judge Greer DOES NOT HAVE A LIFETIME APPOINTMENT. He is elected. He is accountable to his electorate. Of course, he is not accountable to me; I am not in Florida.
Let the people in Florida take care of this -- if they dare. The country is watching Florida.
I pray that they use the power of the people to correct this injustice and put a STOP to this movement to devalue life and to legalize euthanasia. If we hope to stop the murder of unborn children, we must ensure that we are not killing off our elderly because of inconvenience.
He was re-elected in Nov. 2004 with 65% of the county vote. This was after his opponent outspent him 421 to 1 and campaigned against him primarily on the Schaivo case. The voters here sided with Greer.
The people of Pinellas County may be perfectly comfortable with the corruption there, or have no defense against it. Even if he is elected he is bounded in what he can and cannot do, and there are state and federal checks against turning a county into a oligarchical fiefdom.
and is disgusted by what they see.
Cheney isn't worried about or talking about little probate judges like Greer. He is concerned about the 11th Circuit and their ilk up to and including the Supreme Court. He is also concerned about possible fallout landing on the Bushes. Tough.
Thank you for pointing that out!
Even I knew that, and I've known for a long time that not all judges get life-time appointments, maybe it's only federal ones who do. I'd really, really think VP Cheney would know that.