Turns out he's a shyster democrat lawyer turned politician/judge. 
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 - $500 for each day she opened her business' doors.
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Turns out he's a shyster democrat lawyer turned politician/judge.
I’m by no means an attorney, but the way i understand it is an executive order by the President or Governor carries the force of law. Therefore, the judge was acting within the scope of their duty to enforce. Do i agree, h$!! No... but this resulting action should land squarely on Abbott and the judge over reached in may opinion by asking the woman to apologize for a reduced sentence.
And, since they are letting convicted criminals out of jail for fear of the coronavirus, isn’t imprisoning her during this time an example of cruel and unusual punishment?
The Judge
EDUCATION
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1979
B.A., with distinction, Southern Methodist University, 1976
LEGAL EXPERIENCE AND CREDENTIALS
Over 25 years of civil practice experience.
Appointed by Gov. Ann Richards in 1993 to serve as Judge of the 101st Civil District Court, Dallas County, and presided over more than 1,000 cases dealing with commercial, personal injury and all manner of civil cases.
ADDITIONAL COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Harvard Law School Alumni Association of Texas President, 1990-94
Dallas Civil Liberties Foundation Treasurer, 1989
Dallas Civil Liberties Union, 1987-94
Can a law be passed that violates the Constitution? I believe freedom of assembly is in there somewhere...can executive orders limiting our right to assemble truly be enforced without violating a person’s constitutional rights? Serous question...
A BLACK HACK DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN JUDGE!! I am SHOCKED!/s
Independent, productive, freedom-loving people are the “class enemy” leftists like this judge want to crush.
The judge is hidebound to rule of law. There is no excuse to not follow rule of law. Ask any ule of law person how inmportant it is to respect and apply the rule of law.
If this woman gets away with it, it sends the message that rule of law can be disrespected with impunity. Rule of law people believe it is valuable to make examples of people who do not follow the rule of law.
A. What law did she violate...not some politician’s whim..but what law?
B. Who were the “police” who actually arrested her?
“This judge should be doxxed and hounded ....”
I don’t know about that.
Her punishment was not that she opened her salon early, but her contempt of a temporary injunction that she close her business. In other words, she was going to get her day in court to plead her case.
Since her case commenced close in time to when the restrictions are starting to end, her case would eventually become a moot, and whatever citations she received probably would have been dropped. While many of these restrictions could have been challenged, at least to develop and test the limits of the law, it is surprising in a nation of nearly a million lawyers, there were so few cases.
Based on the comments I have seen here, I am going to be in the minority. There is the rule of law. The salon owner was in contempt of court; judge did what he had to do. (Too bad other judges don’t mete out justice to the left at times, like the leftist vandals destroy public property). She is willing to pay the price for it, so be it. Too bad she did not make her challenge over a month ago so her case had a chance of being heard without getting caught up in a contempt of court issue.
Black is white...good is bad....up is down......omg...our country is DYING!
He is an elected judge, not appointed
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Good look correcting all the idiocy on this thread.
Not respectful enough of the rule of law. Into the clink.
Judge could issue a restraining order, then hold her in contempt until either the law allows salons to open, or she promises to stay closed. Keys to her own jail cell, like contempt orders compelling testimony.
The government has a vested interest in showing the people just who is in charge.
The liberty tree is parched
Can’t wait to see that black-robed tyrant behind bars. Everyone involved should go to prison - governor, mayor, black-robed tyrant, and gestapo at all levels. They’re not “police” or “law enforcement,” and we don’t have peace officers anymore. They’re gestapo, and should be called as such.
As a matter of law, “public health emergency” trumps 100% of the constitution, including the BOR.
Prohibition was the “law”. Jim Crow was the “law”. Laws are made by politicians. F them, their “laws”, the horse they rode in on, and the grass they stand on,
An unlawful edict cannot be used as the basis of a contempt charge. I was involved in a case in my jurisdiction where an individual was arrested in a city, for a crime allegedly committed in another province. The local police had no jurisdiction to arrest him, but the judge who arraigned him imposed an order requiring him to deliver his guns to the police. He refused and was cited in contempt. On appeal, the higher court dismissed the initial charges and also the contempt ruling. The order seizing his firearms was invalid, as it was based on his unlawful arrest. The lower court judge had no right to issue a contempt citation on an order that had been unlawfully made. She is 100% right and all conservatives should support her in this fight against political and judicial tyranny.
He is an elected judge, not appointed
First, update your resume, after the next election you won’t be a judge.
Second, hit the gym and get into shape for chasing those ambulances...
I don’t get where you’re going with your comment. Are you insinuating that the lady should have stayed in her home, cowering in fear that Covid will become some physical being and attack her? Because if you think it was good that she was arrested, then I think you’re on the wrong site.
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