Remember when Court Clerk Kim Davis defied Obama's executive order? (legal, banks)
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Because of her personal beliefs? Maybe former AG Yates should be prosecuted for refusing to enforce Trump's executive order and failure to hold her oath to uphold the Constitution. Isn't that how the leftists treat dissonants when they are in power?
1. The Davis situation wasn't an EO, it was a Supreme Court Decision
2. There is a difference between not following the law, and refusing to defend challenges to the law. Yates isn't reusing to enforce the law. The law is still being followed (well the parts of the law that haven't already been dismissed by Judges), she just said she wouldn't defend in Court challenges to the law.
Because of her personal beliefs? Maybe former AG Yates should be prosecuted for refusing to enforce Trump's executive order and failure to hold her oath to uphold the Constitution. Isn't that how the leftists treat dissonants when they are in power?
Because of her personal beliefs? Maybe former AG Yates should be prosecuted for refusing to enforce Trump's executive order and failure to hold her oath to uphold the Constitution. Isn't that how the leftists treat dissonants when they are in power?
She wasn't defying an executive order, Kim Davis defied a SUPREME COURT DECISION....
The differences have already been spelled out regarding what was being opposed and how Davis refused to do her job while Yates simply - and correctly - said that the Bigot in Chief's actions were wrong and unconstitutional and she would not take extra actions to defend them.
What happened to Yates is basically like your boss firing you for refusing to defend his actions in court; you're not required to do that (you're only required to do your actual job), and if a boss did fire you for refusing to defend his actions in court, it's probably because his actions are indefensible and will get a lot of people in trouble.
Finally, stop trying to draw false comparisons. A person refusing to marry gays is, from a moral perspective, nothing like a person taking a stand against bigotry. I know right-wing loons love to use the "technically, it's legal" defense to protect their political agenda - they've been doing that ever since they forgave the banks for the Housing Bubble - but we all see through that BS and it is still morally reprehensible and wrong on every level.
Yes, contempt of court. She was jailed for 5 days, then released.
Then she should have done as the court ordered or simply resigned if she would not perform her duties. There was no prosecution, because contempt does not fall under the same guidelines, she knew that going in and got her 15 minutes of fame.
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