Posted on 09/08/2015 7:50:48 AM PDT by Helicondelta
A federal circuit court judge, David L. Bunning, ordered the Kentucky County Clerk, Kim Davis, to be thrown in jail for refusing to abide by the rulings of the Supreme Court to issue marriage license to gay couples. Kim Davis, a few months ago, refused to issue licenses based on her religious beliefs and filed a motion to the supreme court.
She was sued by some gay couples for this reason and this eventually led to her being thrown in jail.
The judge declined to fine Davis because he said outside sources could easily fund and pay those fines. She was handed over to custody of the U.S. Marshals.
(Excerpt) Read more at inquisitr.com ...
‘Every Public Official Is Subject To The Rule Of Law’
Not Lois Lerner or IRS Commissar Koskinen.
Or Hillary Clinton or her husband,
Petraeus was popped for less than Hillary has done.
Or former top cop Eric Holder.
Obama has been breaking and ignoring laws since Day One and for seven years.
Or ...
The judge must be mistaken. He must have meant to say that every `little fish’ public official is subject to the rule of law ... but not the Inner Party exempt class.
Go Trump.
Tell that to the Supreme Court!
Dear David Bunning - Your esteemed father, Hall of Fame pitcher and former Senator Jim Bunning, must be ashamed of you. You certainly are a disgrace to the bench.
I would love to have inside information on the behind-the-scene collusion that is no doubt happening here. Buttless-chaps Bunning is probably meeting with sodomite activists, and taking bribes from Tim Gill, as well as getting his marching orders from the ACLU.
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Please add the collusion of the media. This story has not been reported accurately.
one example:
She did not issue ANY licenses - most reports say she did not issue any licenses to gays.
Or perhaps Kim Davis and her lawyers are not articulating that she is following the rule of law.
No controlling legal authority.
It’s called “tyranny” and should be opposed with whatever is at hand.
The rule of natural law. Not the rule of pervert law, no matter how many people say otherwise.
Many a time I watched the judge's athletic, strong, determined dad pitch at both Comiskey Park and Wrigley Field as a kid.
His son's judicial career so far has no runs, no hits, and a multitude of errors.
Leni
So the judge is trying out for the Comedy Hour..
Ever here of Barack Obama Judge? How about Hillary Clinton?
That’s a good analysis.
And it seems she has more good rationale for her non-compliance. It seems he should release her if his only answer is “rule of law”, when there actually is no law (yet).
Let’s hope her lawyers make him point to nothing but his own fiat as “law”.
Bunning would have jailed Rosa Parks for contempt, after ordering her to sit in the back of the bus.
“What crime has she been convicted of?”
She is being held in contempt of court. Apparently they can do that, and keep her there until she gives in. No matter how long it takes. There was a story here last week of a man freed after being held in contempt 14 years.
He could have slapped her with a $10,000 a day fine for each day of noncompliance and sent her home.
Instead he jailed her. No fine, no docking of her salary (I think), no financial harm.
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From this article he could not fine her -don’t know if it is accurate so legal experts can weigh in.
Sept 3
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis gets help from GOP state Senate president
http://www.wcpo.com/news/state/state-kentucky/rowan-county-clerk-kim-davis-gets-help-from-gop-state-senate-president
And he said that if Bunning were to fine Davis for not obeying his order it would amount to criminal penalties that would be illegal because Davis has not exercised all of her rights, including the right to a trial by a jury.
I don’t think thats right.
Being jailed is just as much a “criminal penalty” as fining is. Pethaps moreso since the person gets arrested, booked, fingerprinted, mugshots, etc. And there are innumerable precedents for courts at all levels fining as part of contempt citations.
Remember, it was believed he would fine her. It’s what the couples asked for, not wanting to turn her into a martyr. Bunning cited the ability to fine himself, saying it “wasn’t enough”.
Thanks for the clarification.
Ahhh, but if the LAW (say Sanford v. Dred Scot, or Plessy v. Ferguson, so it’s JUDGE-MADE law, the kind that Bunning takes a particular shine to), if the LAW said that Rosa parks had to sit in the back of the bus, and he ordered Mrs. Parks to obey the LAW, and Mrs. Parks refused, he has to save judicial face, and contempt is his only option to get compliance out of Mrs. Parks.
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