Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) retroactively defanged his own stay-at-home orders Thursday just before the state Supreme Court freed a Dallas salon owner who had been held in contempt of court and sentenced to a week in jail for defying them.
Is this bastard up for election this year?
“Criminals shouldn’t be released to prevent COVID-19 just to put business owners in their place.“
Yeah, we don’t want want a bunch of criminals admonishing business owners and shaking their fingers at them. At least have them steal some PPE for FEMA.
I hope I’m not being uncharitable when I wish an early covid-related death to these fucking people.
So they’ve set the precedent that rich white blond suburbanites can openly and mockingly ignore a judge’s orders with zero punishment. Rule of law is going to be interesting in Texas going forward.
She wasn’t jailed for defying Abbott’s shutdown order. She was jailed – quite rightly – for brazenly violating Judge Eric Moye’s temporary restraining order. If she didn’t like that ruling, she should have appealed it. Instead, she went to a MAGA rally to declare her martyrdom and willingness to go to jail for the principle of it. Judge Moye granted her wish. With any luck, she may have picked up a case of the 'rona during her three days in jail.
So, the populace is now on notice they’re free to ignore warnings issued to deal with emergencies. If they have the money to pay a fine they’re exempt from any attempt by the government to protect citizens.
“Incoming aerial bombardment by a foreign invader! Everyone douse all your lights, we’re ordering a complete blackout to deny them help in targeting our cities!!”
“Nah, I’m keeping all my lights on. Here’s $50 for the fine. Now go away.”
“The Law and Order Party”
Bwaahahahahahaaaaa.
Law and order is for the browns. For the whites, it’s laissez faire rugged individualism.
A nation of laws becomes a nation of whims.
In TX it’s going to come down to the Blues and Reds within the state.
The Blues should win.
Usually, the will to live is stronger than the desire to die for Donald Trump.
If by rugged individualism you mean the right to have the state protect you from the consequences of your actions whenever you don’t like those consequences.
Trump’s plans going forward depend on
(1) a control of the flow of information
(2) some seriously dumb fuckers who believe Trump
Sorry, I’ve run out of Darwin Award nomination slips. More on order.
Thank you for your patience. /s
I see you’re assuming the casting and counting of ballots by Blues will be accorded the same fairness experienced by Reds casting and counting their votes?
I think the GOP has already held the election, and is peeved they have to wait until election night to release the tallies. Certainly at least five SCOTUS Justices are at work on their ruling everyone should just shut up and accept the results, how bad can four more years of this be anyway?
A show of hands over here in this corner seems to show, um, 1…2…3…oh, OK, I guess that’s 63,000,000 at least.
“I am eliminating jail for violating an order…”
OK then. Now how about that order shutting down family planning clinics? I guess we are free to ignore that one too.
In NYC, 92% of those arrested for failure to socially distance are black or Hispanic. It’s not just Texas. It’s the whole law-and-order right.
I seem to remember that the Constitution expressly prohibits ex post facto laws.
Apparently, the US Constitution doesn’t apply to Texas.