This editorial is ridiculous. Yes usually makes sense, but expecting individual county clerk’s to form the resistance to this law is not a realistic plan.
I tend to agree. But Senator Cruz is a lawyer and he has spent decades dealing with the courts. Surely he knows many clerks, and knows this is absolutely not the job that these people signed up to do.
Many of these deputy clerks are young women in essentially secretarial roles; the older ones in supervisory positions are often grandmotherly types.
Stranger things have happened in history. Maybe we're about to see a huge revolt of young women and elderly matrons taking action and "growing a pair" when our mostly-male political class did nothing.
Is Senator Cruz's goal to have lots of clerks protesting in the streets, shouting that homosexual activists have declared a war on women? It might make a great sound bite and photo op, but I'm not sure it will work.
Senator Cruz must have thought this through before making his proposal. Perhaps Texas clerks are made of tough stuff willing to risk jail time. I surely hope he has an idea what to do if he's going to put lots of women in their 20s and 50s on the front lines of this fight.