Posted on 05/06/2020 3:53:41 AM PDT by C19fan
The defiant Texas salon owner who refused to close her business despite stay-at-home restrictions and repeated court orders has been sentenced to seven days in jail. Shelley Luther, the owner of Salon a la Mode in Dallas, appeared in court on Tuesday where she was sentenced to seven days behind bars and $7,000 - $500 for each day she opened her business' doors.
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“Not respectful enough of the rule of law. Into the clink.”
Patriots resist unlawful and unconstitutional diktats. Snakes crawl on their bellies and lick the hand that feeds them.
What does “your honor” even mean? Are they minor nobility?
There is such thing as an unjust law. Although to me, the expression “unjust law” is an oxymoron. Perhaps a better term is”arbitrary rule,” which demands civil disobedience.
A trial judge’s job is to throw cold water on civil disobedience. The law is the law. He’d have given her a break if she apologized, admitted she should have followed the law.
She was unrepentant. She thumbed her nose at the law, and gave her reason.
His job is to take one side of this, hers is to take the other. Now it gets kincked upstairs to the next layer of authority.
Please point me to the section of the Constitution that allows that.
Uh, that may be the result in practice, but that is not his job as a judge.
Ah yes, the academic angle. How many angels and so forth.
And then we get into the obvious fact that judges are not uniform, law is not uniform, some people get preferred treatment, and all the other warts.
But, we pretend the skin is blemish free. Mostly the legal system pretends. Meanshile, get on with the black market and figure out how to evade the law.
There is only “rule of law” for the non elite, conservatives and republicans.
Well, then, someone needs to bring this to the immediate attention of the governor so he can sort out for the judge (he, and all other judges) what he has in view with his executive decision. This way voters can be clear as to whether or not this executive order supersedes the Constitution, so they may act accordingly.
Nothing and no one should trump the Constitution.
Your a pretty jaded individual. With regard to the courts, I am as well, but I know a good lawyer makes all the difference because they speak the courts language. Much as I hate that it’s an industry that feeds on victims in many cases, a good lawyer would have presented arguments that would have kept her out of jail. Self representing is less costly but much riskier. You have to be well read in the process, and most are not.
Well he is a Dem and no doubt a Bo supporter do ypu are not totally wrong
Here also, with other content added.
Dallas County, Texas Salon Owner Jailed For COVID-19 Noncompliance – Opened Business Now Incarcerated
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All good lawyers will tell you the outcome is unpredictable, and "it depends."
Totally agree, a good lawyer can make a difference. And in some cases, the intention is to get jailed for "political optics" purposes.
We don't know the true motivation or mindsets here, other than i tend to believe the woman was stressed over the absence of income, and she does not apprehend a risk to the public.
Could be pretty much a mirror image of fearper vs. flubro that goes on here, for all I know, with her a flubro and he a fearper with string "rule of law" overlay. That situation is entrenched, and further discussion is pointless.
FWIW, J.D. w/honors. Yes, quite cynical, but also able to view "the situation" frpom both academic and practical angles, and been around enough to know the academic arguments are nothing but cover.
You claim to be an advocate of following the letter of the law. How do you feel about booting the 20 million illegal aliens. Let’s enforce the law.
All laws must respect the Constitution - I don’t see anything where it says “...but for viruses”.
What is your metric for overriding constitutional rights? What threshold must be met against that metric?
I guess every year there’s a flu we should expect our governors to issue “emergency” and deny us our rights.
Lives are being destroyed by arbitrary ‘orders’ being barked out by tyrants - and you’re fine with it.
As much as Johnathan Swift claimed to be an advocate of eating babies.
I’m going to bail out of this discussion before I get in more trouble with you.
I’d immediately sue the judge and the governments of Texas.
She did not break a law. Legislatures make laws. Not governors or Clay Jenkins or cities. She broke a regulation. This should go to the Supreme Court.
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