Posted on 05/07/2020 10:00:45 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
The Texas Supreme Court has now intervened in the ongoing travesty of justice in which salon owner Shelley Luther was sentence to 7 days in the Dallas County Jail by an overbearing Democrat judge. Late Thursday morning, Judge Eric Moye’ was ordered by the Supremes to release Ms. Luther from jail, where she was sentenced for contempt of court.
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The Supreme Court intervened after Texas Governor Greg Abbott amended his shut-down order to prohibit authoritarian judges like Moye’ from throwing people in jail, an unintended consequence that the Governor obviously failed to consider when he issued his hasty and clearly unconstitutional order in March.
“Throwing Texans in jail who have had their businesses shut down through no fault of their own is nonsensical, and I will not allow it to happen,” Abbott said in a statement, adding that his order is retroactive to April 2 and supersedes local directives. “As some county judges advocate for releasing hardened criminals from jail to prevent the spread of COVID-19, it is absurd to have these business owners take their place.”
It is indeed absurd, but it is also fair to again point out that it was Abbott’s order that set up the conditions under which corrupt judges could engage in such abusive behavior. Abbott, along with governors all over the country, acted hastily and without real forethought in shutting down their respective economies on the pretense of “flattening the curve” of the Wuhan Virus in March. He took that action without the need for a 13-committee, 39-member “Strike Force” similar to the one he is using for political cover during his carefully-planned, phased reopening now.
One of the unintended consequences of that rash action is that Mrs. Luther, along with several other business owners in Texas, have been forced by abusive judges to spend time in jail under what is in all likelihood an illegal order to begin with. In Ms. Luther’s case, she has spent 2 nights in a jail in which more than 240 cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed.
This is a travesty and a scandal, and it must never be allowed to happen again.
That is all.
The problem is many courts ARE contemptible yet the judges still have the power.
The United Sdtates and ALL individual states have e entirely too many laws ;and under lefttists they coddle the dangerous criminals but harshly punish ordinary citizens.
She is supposed to be released by 4 pm today. want a bet they’ll hold her until exactly 4 ppm?
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Prolly right. I hope she has some choice words for that judge and lets him know that she’ll never bend a knee for the likes of him.
“”It is indeed absurd, but it is also fair to again point out that it was Abbott’s order that set up the conditions under which corrupt judges could engage in such abusive behavior. Abbott, along with governors all over the country, acted hastily and without real forethought in shutting down their respective economies on the pretense of “flattening the curve””
Our freedoms are fragile indeed when even the Governor of the great state of Texas can sweep them away in a panicked moment with the brush of a pen.
Human beings do not often make rational decisions in panicked moments. This is the fascinating psychology of stampedes where people are trampled to death. This is why people will die in a doorway of a building on fire when there are windows they can exit from away from the fire.
Watching a person under stress is often the best reveal of their true character. It almost always reveals the heart of a guardian or the heart of a lamb. It also reveals how much trust and faith the leader has in those he/she leads.
The problem is many courts ARE contemptible yet the judges still have the power.
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the Left weaponized the justice system just like the way they have weaponized our federal agencies.
One is a cage where you’re locked inside and can’t leave. The other is a cage where you’re locked inside and can’t leave.
At least she’ll have a bucket of $500K from the GoFundMe to pay the fines.
;) Glad you cleared that up.
I figure that if you’re being denied the right of going where you want to, and “they” have weapons, you’re “imprisoned”.
I believe he's up for re-election this November (during a presidential race with a republican president at the top of the ticket).
No, they’ll just pull her business license and make it illegal for her to work.
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