Quote:I for one think that this is excessive.  The bottom line is that she needs to be removed from her position, and it should not be by incarceration.

She can't be legally removed from her position, though, except by recall or impeachment. Recall's not going to happen, and impeachment isn't likely either. She's already said she won't resign.

 

She was only sent to jail after the judge gave her the option of not issuing licenses herself, but only agreeing not to interfere with her staff doing so. She refused and said that she would not allow her staff to issue marriage licenses. Sending her to jail might seem excessive, but when you sit back and think about it, she had willfully violated the law and court orders repeatedly, and had just told a judge that she would continue to do so. In order to uphold the law and make sure licenses were issued as they legally had to be, he had no choice but to keep her out of work. The only way for him to do that was to incarcerate her.

 

I suspect she'll be out of jail within a week, and anything more than that certainly would be excessive, but she was standing in the way of the law being carried out. That's more than reason enough to hold someone in contempt of court and jail them. I mean, what other choice did he have? Tell her, once again, to issue licenses, then act surprised when she, yet again, refused to do so or allow her staff to?

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