San Francisco - postscript:
Southwestern University Law School Professor Robert A. Pugsley (a legal academic who, it appears, makes his living as a legal commentator, and whose most recent publication is over five years old) was on O'Reilly yesterday advocating the
arrest of the
the mayor of San Francisco. It's hard to take such a proposal seriously. (The court of original jurisdiction today
declined -- at least yet -- to issue an injunction which Mayor Newsom would have to violate to be jailed for contempt of court.)
Pugsley did raise the somewhat worthwhile point, however, that since the STATE is actually issuing marriage licenses through the locality, the licenses issued by San Francisco might not be valid at all. If true, the argument is that San Francisco is doing more of a disservice than anythinig else to the people whom it marries. However, Pugsley's argument that Newsom could be jailed under an ordinance forbidding the enrollment of false records, in light of the tremendous legal controversy which indicates the issue is far from settled, seems specious at best.
