Maybe I missed it, but its seems odd that no Kentucky legislator, County or Supreme Court judge in KY, or any State official there has spoken out against the intrusion by a Federal judge in the workings of a State function—marriage licenses.
Judge Bunning crapped all over Kentucky law, and the entire State apparatus, save for one lone County clerk other than Davis, said nothing about the matter.
I’ve been thinking about that. There’s no reason for it. The only thing I came up with is that they’re all good dues paying members of the cartel - - ah excuse me, bar association. What I mean is: group think.
“...odd that no Kentucky legislator, County or Supreme Court judge in KY, or any State official there has spoken out...”
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Add the governor to that list. In fact, the governor, Steve Beshear, went out of his way to persuade the few reluctant county clerks to issue the same-sex marriage licenses. State sovereignty no longer exists, if it ever did. Sad.
At the state and local level KY remains a Conservative Democrat-led state. Even Kim Davis herself is a Democrat.
Those Democrats have no idea what to do, and are running scared ahead of the state-wide elections this November. Their control of the major state-wide offices and Majority in the Legislature is on the line.
The KY Attorney General, who is also the Dem nominee for Governor, is in a deliciously tough place. The rural Conservative voters he needs to win are pressuring him to support Davis. The urban Liberal voters (from Louisville and Lexington) he also needs to win are pressuring him to indict her or appoint a Special Prosecutor to go after her on misconduct charges.
And he’s flailing around badly trying to walk a tightrope between the two.