The Oath Keepers — the armed, anti-government vigilante group known for popping up at the Ferguson protests and elsewhere — has told Kim Davis’ legal counsel that they would be willing to “protect” the anti-gay marriage Kentucky clerk from being detained by the U.S. Marshals Service. According to Right Wing Watch, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes has said he is already on his way to Kentucky.
In a statement posted to the Oath Keepers’ website, Rhodes claims that the federal judge who ordered Davis’ detention after she refused to issue gay marriage licenses “grossly overstepped his bounds and violated Mrs Davis’ due process rights, and in particular her right to a jury trial.”
Prior to Davis’ release from detention Tuesday, the Oath Keepers planned to picket the home of the judge, U.S. District Judge David Bunning, Right Wing Watch reported. It is unclear if she will be detained again if she gets in the way of her clerks’ office issuing the licenses, as her lawyers have suggested, when she returns to work.
“We must stand against this. And so we will protect her and prevent it from happening again,” Rhodes said in the statement.
will Snivlin’ Cliven be showing up as a special guest star? maybe with a free range cow to donate so the family doesn’t starve…
No right to jury trial for contempt hearing in California. Don
Do it. Come on I want just one of you idiots to fire a shot at a federal officer. Go ahead try it. See what happens next. Dumbasses.
I’m surprised that Huck and Cruz haven’t chained themselves to her as a form of “protest theater”.
No, please. Just interfere by standing in the way and refusing to move. That will be enough.
Must be cheese grits on the jail breakfast menu next week – so many eager for a stay there.