[Magdalen] Kim Davis ordered to jail.

[Scott Knitter]

Up here in these parts, i think the state Supreme Court is in charge of all the county and district courts. Our counties are typically local agents of the state, with some exceptions. In Chicago, our municipal government is practically a county unto itself but there are still some things the county provides including some hospitals, some sheriff functions (if you're to be evicted from your home or leased business space, this is done by the county's "sheriff's police"...a unique Chicago phrase that seems redundant to me.

I've sometimes referred to our city as a "crown principality" or, when the mayor or an alderman is being ridiculous, a "clown principality."

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> On Sep 3, 2015, at 10:10 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, Virginia is largely county-based, rather than city-based, which makes things interesting. So the Clerk of Court is generally the official at a county courthouse. If a town or city is incorporated and is large enough, it may have its own separate court and police department, but it isn't considered part of the county. If it's too small, it may contract with the county for those services. Very complicated.
> 
> On September 3, 2015, at 11:04 PM, Charles Wohlers <charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> In New England, there are no county clerks, just Town or City Clerks who are 
> elected. At least, that's my experience.
> 
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Grace Cangialosi
> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 9:55 PM
> To: Magdalen
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Kim Davis ordered to jail.
> 
> Ah, but now she's getting to be a martyr for her faith. In my opinion, she 
> should be fired, but apparently, since she's an elected official, they can't 
> fire her.
> 
> Are clerks of the court elected everywhere? We have five people running for 
> the office here, one of them a convicted felon. I think clerks, sheriffs and 
> treasurers should all be hired by municipalities for their qualifications, 
> not elected for their popularity.
> 
> On September 3, 2015, at 8:57 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
> 
> From: H Angus
> 
>> I'm not going to play "dueling scriptures," but since I have myself broken 
>> the
>> law for the sake of conscience, I can't really agree that God and the State 
>> are
>>> precisely of equal authority when it comes to decisions of right and 
>>> wrong.
> 
> Good thing with a woman who so believes in traditional marriage that she's 
> on
> her fourth husband. Dueling scriptures indeed!
> 
> And of course, there's the Quaker clerk who refuses to issue gun permits for
> religious reasons, and the teetotaler who refuses to sign off on a state 
> liquor
> license and the folk who believe Black people are the "Sons of Ham" so don’t
> have any rights at all.
> 
> Gotta love that freedom of conscience stuff -- especially when she's going 
> to
> jail for defying a court order, and not her religious beliefs that she's 
> free to
> hold.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jim
>