What LAW did the clerk break that now has her in jail? She is in jail because a judge gave her an order and she refused to follow it based on (authentic) religous convictions.
“The Law is the Law.” What law was written and approved that is being referred to since “We are a nation of Laws.”?
We have regulations that are considered laws that are written by beuracrats that have authority because of some referenced legislation (see Obamacare, EPA, IRS, etc.). What have we in this case? A court ruling?
It’s not lost on me that what she did qualifies as “Contempt” if a judge so deems. But her protest certainly brings to light the ideological basis of the judge’s order. More importantly, it sheds an interesting light on the role and power of the Supreme Court with regards to establishing laws by ruling and then enforcing them from the bench. No more do we need congress or an Attorney General. Now lawyers can file a suit, get it to the Supreme Court, get a law by ruling on it and then have lower courts enforce them with the power they assume in a courthouses.
For Trump to side step an opportunity is not like Trump. It does not fit the MO he has quite effectively established in a short time as a candidate. I am in the “glad to have Trump now camp”. But I still have lots of reservations based on his pretty recent past political positions. Mix that it with his extreme opportunistic nature, and I wonder what his values are and for how long he will remain loyal to them.
Gonna have to agree to disagree. Trump has been hammering home “we are a nation of laws etc...” he can’t follow that up by saying this woman should ignore the law (or court order etc...) Ignoring the law is what the illegals and democrats do. I don’t like it, I don’t think she should be in jail, but that is for her lawyers to figure out. trump didn’t stir this shitpile, she did.
And for the record, the woman everyone is lining up behind is a four-times divorced registered Democrat. Kind of a weird standard bearer for this situation.
“What LAW did the clerk break that now has her in jail?”
She stopped issuing marriage licenses, which is her job. She was ordered by a judge to go back and do her job, which she said she could not do for religious reasons. She was held in contempt for refusing a court order and put in the pen.
Now we have this corny excuse (after the fact) that because SCOTUS ruled bans on gay marriage unconstitutional that there is “no law” in Kentucky for issuing any marriage licenses and therefore she has committed no offense.
There is no ideological bias. She simply stopped working. That’s her choice. But she has no ground to stand on that she just was minding her own business and was chucked into jail because she was a Christian.