can you impeach a county clerk?
Hi, guys. I’m thinking of coming back to LJ for awhile. I’ve been doing a project of staying away from Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter for a couple months, to see if it helps with my concentration. More about that in a later post, maybe, if I feel like soul-baring. But I took August off from all social media and am now reintroducing LJ because I
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I do think attention-seeking has to be the main thing. She's the face of the movement now and people are telling her she's amazingly wonderful and brave. I think originally she did want the Supreme Court to conclude that she didn't have to issue the licenses, and now she's just dug in too deeply to go back on it.
And yeah, I think impeachment is a more common thing here than it is there, but I've always thought of it as something reserved for, like, Presidents and people who have a good deal of power. Not county clerks. The whole concept of impeaching a county clerk sounds pretty ridiculous. Of course it's even more ridiculous that in this case they won't do it.
I am really enjoying rediscovering all my LJ icons. I forgot about this one (although the book that inspired it will remain forever green in my heart. It's amazing.)
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It's got to be pretty hard to back down once you've stood up for your beliefs for so long and especially when you're getting that kind of response. I'd heard that there were people saying they'd pay any fines if it came to that so she's obviously had a huge amount of support. And now she's been sent to jail but only for a week or something. It all seems like it got a bit out of hand on both sides somehow - she wasn't able to back down and neither was the court.
Yay for rediscovering LJ icons!
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