Texas Gov. Abbott drops jail time
for violating stay-at-home orders
after furor over salon owner
Washington Times,
by
David Sherfinski
&
Dave Boyer
Original Article
Posted By: shalimar,
5/7/2020 11:55:04 AM
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a new order Thursday eliminating jail time as punishment for violating stay-at-home orders, effectively allowing jailed salon owner Shelley Luther to be released.
“Throwing Texans in jail whose biz’s shut down through no fault of their own is wrong,” Mr. Abbott tweeted. “I am eliminating jail for violating an order, retroactive to April 2, superseding local orders.”
He added, “Criminals shouldn’t be released to prevent COVID-19 just to put business owners in their place.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
curious1 5/7/2020 12:06:52 PM (No. 403841)
So has she been released yet? Does the arrest remain on her record or get expunged? Will the judge get kicked off the bench this November?
Inquiring minds want to know!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Clinger 5/7/2020 12:30:13 PM (No. 403880)
This boneheaded judge and the gallant Shelly Luther is a microcosm of the entire mess. Protected elites who need not worry where there next meal comes from or how they will pay the mortgage making decisions for the unwashed masses who bear the consequences of decisions made "for them" by the powered class.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GO3 5/7/2020 12:45:28 PM (No. 403903)
Abbott should not have given county commissioners/judges such broad leeway in "translating" his EOs. Almost immediately the county Gauleiters drafted their own orders which issued edicts instead of guidance and were highly punitive. It took an egregious example such as the Luther case for state leadership to awake from its COVID-19 induced coma.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Jeremiah29_11 5/7/2020 12:56:50 PM (No. 403917)
The Texas Supreme Court has ordered her immediate release. I would hope she takes the money from the GoFund me campaign for her, hire the best attorney she can find and the sue the crap out of that idiot judge.
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Best example of Leftist insanity ever. They're letting criminals out of jail and putting business owners in jail if nitwits like this leftist judge are allowed to spray his prejudice and ignorance all over our courtrooms.
That judge needs to be impeached, BTW.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
lgplgp 5/7/2020 12:58:55 PM (No. 403919)
The judge found her too "uppity" for refusing to apologize and slapped her back down into her place.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
OBX Pete 5/7/2020 1:07:30 PM (No. 403930)
Nice move Gov. Abbott. From what I hear there are donations pouring in to help this brave lady during this virus fiasco and they mounting rapidly. If this is true she wont have to run a salon any more. Kudos to all the generous Americans who are sending donations !!!!
19 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Texpub 5/7/2020 1:16:18 PM (No. 403934)
This will make you furious: She is being held in jail for "contempt of court" because she wouldn't apologize to the judge for going back to work. Texas Supreme Court said she had to be released by 4PM today. Head jailer said they don't have to comply because it's the contempt charge not the operating her business too early problem that is keeping her in jail. We are looking at an affirmative action graduate of Harvard who was elected in a Democrat controlled city and who enjoys Cuban cigars and an assured salary of somewhere around $160,000 or so. UGH. He needs to get over himself.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
anniebc 5/7/2020 1:36:46 PM (No. 403953)
Now, put the judges and the criminals releasing criminals in jail, along with the criminals that have been released. Finish the darn job, folks!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 5/7/2020 1:38:55 PM (No. 403955)
Good. Now take that judge out an put him in the public stocks and let people throw rotten eggs and tomatoes at him for a couple of days.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
TXSPeach 5/7/2020 1:55:06 PM (No. 403973)
She opened her business out of concern for her employees. She is a successful businesswoman and no doubt will take the GoFund money and give it to her employees.
8 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
ByteGuru 5/7/2020 2:03:37 PM (No. 403984)
Since everything the left does has a racial component, don't disregard that it was a black Obama judge dropping the hammer on a successful white woman.
I agree with many sentiments posted here and other places to wit: if that judge could not see the total idiocy of the entire situation, he should consider retirement.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/7/2020 2:08:22 PM (No. 403991)
That activist liberal Democrat politicized Judge abused his discretion big time. At the moment it looks like he got a lot of people’s attention, some of them higher up the Texas judicial and political pecking orders then he is, and at the moment has ended up holding the sh-tty end of the stick.
5 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Right Time 5/7/2020 2:47:03 PM (No. 404026)
A big, masked black man jailed this poor little white woman.
Is Al Sharpton going to help her?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
SALady 5/7/2020 2:53:47 PM (No. 404036)
Keep in mind that this fascist judge didn't just want her to apologize, he demanded that she "apologize for being selfish"!!!!
Pure abuse of power!!! And pure evil!!!!!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Watlines1 5/7/2020 2:57:48 PM (No. 404044)
Easy peasy reason why he sent her to jail:
By tearing up that cease and desist order she was "disreeespecting" his court, meaning him personally.
You can't do that to a swell like him. What would his liberal friends think?
He's gotta go and his wallet needs to be emptied on the way out.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Watlines1 5/7/2020 3:00:23 PM (No. 404046)
P.S. did you notice how he avoided eye contact with Luther while she stood up for her rights and shamed the coward?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/7/2020 4:41:38 PM (No. 404187)
How did Abbott think this was a good idea in the first place? The public would have given him an earful if they had access.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Readaholic 5/7/2020 5:00:02 PM (No. 404201)
Is she out yet?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 5/7/2020 6:26:56 PM (No. 404276)
This is Texas where a few month's back a mother in a nasty divorce almost took custody of her son, a child, and started him on gender reassignment. It actually made it to court instead of being thrown out to begin with.
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Also, Dan Patrick wasn't kidding when he said he would pay her fine. He donated $7,000 to her GoFundMe account.