It probably makes sense to have released her, since marriage licenses were being issued. The second time around the punishment can be more in line with the determined and repeated effort to break the law, regardless of consequences.
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Not exactly. She’s arguing that the District Court exceeded its jurisdiction in expanding its order to apply to future marriage license requests, rather than the 4 couples that were named plaintiffs in the lawsuit initially brought against her.
In effect, she’s claiming that she’s not bound to issue any future licenses. If she wins this particular argument, it means that everyone will have to go through this same crazy process the next time a couple comes into her County Clerk office to seek a marriage license. Presumably, it will play out in exactly the same way.
Her argument here may be technically correct–I have no idea–but it’s the essence of frivolous litigation. This goes way beyond a good faith effort to assert “religious liberty” rights (misguided though this may be) and has moved into obstructionist territory. I hope that at some point, her attorneys get hit with sanctions for all of this.
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It’s time to start slapping the Liberty Council with some censures and disbar these hacks.
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bless their hearts … they should not have to go to all that trouble themselves - certainly there are many who would do it for them!
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Seriously, CC, if she genuinely prayed to Jesus as I, an unbaptized sinner, understand him, if she prayed to ask what he would do in her place, I think he would answer, “I would do my job.” Just my guess on that, I’m not the magical thinker those people are so I really don’t know.
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They can’t. Disbarring them would be unconstitutional because Jehovah. It’s in the Bible. Which is the source of the Constitution.
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Bunning expanded the order Sept. 3 to apply to all Kentucky couples seeking for marriage licenses in the county, which Davis’ lawyers say in Friday’s petition “lays waste to well-established principles of jurisdiction and due process in the federal court system.”
I guess if you eliminate all of the prior litigation on this issue, up to and including the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergfell, they might have a point.
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I learn so much in these discussions!!
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How very fortunate for her that judicial patience has been finely honed by decades of meritless prisoner litigation filed by guys in the joint with access to a law library and too much time on their hands (a vast amount of it seems to concern cigarettes).
Because but for that patience, I suspect the temptation to order the bailiff to just throw her into the nearest wood chipper would be high.
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And this time, she can be a part of the general population in the steel hotel, none of this isolation baloney.
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Anyone think she’ll fire her staff when she returns next week?
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Perhaps Ms. Davis will argue that she already used up all of the county’s licenses via her own marriages.
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If you put Davis’ brain in a bird azz’ it would begin to fly backward and upside down. And her lawyers would yell, “Praise be! It’s a miracle!”
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If this was allowed to stand (which will not happen), she’d have to marry husband #5 in another county.
You know there will be a #5.
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I doubt it. Cleetus P. Dungarees is enjoying this bullshit circus.
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Just wait until the party’s over.
Of course, the Oath Keepers should provide some rip-roaring entertainment as they attempt to protect her from the evil activist judiciary.
This ought to be good.
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Mencken improved for this situation:
“We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is faithful and his children smart.” – H. L. Mencken
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No, no, no, no … I think it’s “bless their little hearts.” And, damn, do I ever mean “little.”
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I seriously dislike this person.
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Um, how do you classify the “Sovereign Citizens?” Or that matter, the current Congress?