JustinR wrote:Dub_James wrote:This whole episode is reflecting horribly on "Conservatives". They've shown themselves just as quick to abandon the Law they claim to value, when it suits them to do so.
I have to disagree. As Mark Levin has pointed out, and even written a book about, just because the Supreme Court says its legal, doesn't mean it's Constitutional or that they are right. The fact a Federal judge was willing to throw an elected official in jail because she wouldn't violate her religious beliefs is a horrible precedent. Just like the bakery that was put out of business, it's now open season to legally force people to do things against their religion, except for Muslim women wearing burqas at TSA checkpoints of course. Next, it will be the non-profit status of churches that will be legally challenged because they won't host or perform a gay wedding.
The guarantee of the freedom of religion is now gone. They could have gone to a different bakery that would have done business with them, or gone to a different county clerk, or even put a recall referendum for the county clerk on the ballot. Instead, it's now illegal to NOT do things these individuals find personally immoral. Her refusal will be the first of many acts of civil disobedience I'm willing to bet.
As an aside, it's laughably ironic that the left screams "but the LAW!" in this case, but ignores it every place else.
^^^ That.
One wonders when federal judges will start throwing mayors in federal prisons for not enforcing the actual federal laws regarding immigration and co-operation with federal immigration agencies.
That even the drones at Fox News haven't tumbled to that and set the Left on fire for it is a gaping flaw in the whole manufactured outrage game.
No one took Huckster seriously to begin with. Re-examine your local environment if his poll numbers are anywhere north of single digits.
Which is
why he used this as adroitly as an elephant concert pianist to try and bootstrap himself some publicity and actual media notice.
Christie tripping over his own tongue to get this wrong was just a bonus, but cements his status as Not Ready For Big Time.
(And for the record, I'm going with 80% likelihood this federal judge turns out to be a stylish dresser with a boyfriend stashed in an apartment somewhere.)
He's already got lifetime tenure, so the only other explanation than sheer Federal Judge Hubris ("Because we CAN!") for interfering in a state matter here is that he thinks he has a shot at getting an appointment to the local Circus Court, and he's buffing his resume.
Bonus points would have been the state getting their back up, and directing the state police to arrest the judge and the local US Marshals and holding them in contempt as well, IN JAIL, and refusing to let them out until Davis was freed unconditionally, and everyone went back to their corners and starting minding their own sides of the street.
But as they have a Democrat gov., KY just got their states' rights voluntarily bufu'ed again, and it didn't event require Grant or Sherman with armies to do it; just one tenured pencil pushing black-robed jackass.
"There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
