{"id":3908,"date":"2005-04-06T10:25:10","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T14:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3908.html"},"modified":"2005-04-06T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2005-04-06T14:25:10","slug":"gop-senators-want-nothing-to-do-with-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/gop-senators-want-nothing-to-do-with-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP senators want nothing to do with DeLay"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week after Tom DeLay issued an implicit threat against judges — releasing a public statement<\/a> saying, “The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior” — some of his Republican allies are distancing themselves from the Majority Leader’s reckless rhetoric.<\/p>\n

Dick Cheney got the ball rolling<\/a> over the weekend, publicly denouncing DeLay’s comments.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think that’s appropriate … There’s a reason why judges get lifetime appointments.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yesterday, some of DeLay’s congressional Republican colleagues did some distancing of their own<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Senate GOP leaders disputed Tuesday assertions by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) and other conservatives that the Terri Schiavo case would lead to legislative action being taken against federal judges. <\/p>\n

Rebuking DeLay’s claim that judges would have to “answer” for their Schiavo decisions, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) instead said Congressional intervention in the matter was a singular event and the case would not result in any further legislation related to judges. […]<\/p>\n

Majority Whip Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) also distanced himself from DeLay’s comments that the federal judges involved in the case — who some Republicans feel ignored their wishes in legislation requesting the federal judiciary take up the matter — should face some sort of action from Congress. Instead, McConnell said the Schiavo matter had been addressed by the Senate and was now resolved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How far out there is DeLay? Even John Cornyn, who’s a bit of a fanatic himself<\/a>, wants to make it clear he’s not in DeLay’s camp<\/a>.
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Even Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), whose remarks on the Senate floor Monday wondering whether anger at judicial decisions had indirectly led to a recent spate of violence against judges also drew criticism, said he would not support any legislative action against judges. “I don’t think Congressman DeLay and I see eye to eye on that,” said Cornyn, a former state judge. <\/p>\n

While he said questionable decisions by judges should be criticized, Cornyn backed away from DeLay’s remarks about judges having to “answer” for their decisions. “I really don’t know what he means,” Cornyn added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Has the “throw DeLay overboard” memo gone out to GOP lawmakers? Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A week after Tom DeLay issued an implicit threat against judges — releasing a public statement saying, “The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior” — some of his Republican allies are distancing themselves from the Majority Leader’s reckless rhetoric. Dick Cheney got the ball rolling over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}