jim1080495 wrote:yod wrote:Kim Davis has broken no law on the books.
http://www.aclu-ky.org/wp-content/uploa ... plaint.pdf
42 U.S. Code § 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights
Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.
(R.S. § 1979; Pub. L. 96–170, § 1, Dec. 29, 1979, 93 Stat. 1284; Pub. L. 104–317, title III, § 309(c), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3853.)
If Davis was a Muslim, and upheld her interpretation of sharia law above the local, state and federal laws, in discharging her duties as clerk ... same folks supporting her now, would be storming the courthouse with pitch forks to lynch her!
There is nothing in that paragraph which she has broken. It should be simple if there were a law. Show me the law that Kim Davis broke. You can't because it doesn't exist. Want to try again?
Here are some other Supreme Court decisions that were also "simple to understand".
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857). Black people cannot be citizens. It was from this decision that the current problematic ruling comes from.
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896). Jim Crow and "separate but equal" are constitutional.
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927). Mentally disabled people can be involuntarily sterilized.
Ex parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942). US citizens accused of collaborating with an enemy can be sentenced to death by a military tribunal with none of the protections in the Bill of Rights.
Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944). Japanese-American citizens can be imprisoned and have their property confiscated without due process of law.
Simple to understand and dead wrong. The fight against judicial usurpation continues.