Judge Eric Moye, left, and Attorney General Ken Paxton
UPDATE: Apparently, Gov. Greg Abbott also sent Moye a letter. We haven’t seen that yet.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter today (Wednesday, May 6) to Dallas County Judge Eric Moye, insisting that Moye immediately release hair salon owner Shelley Luther, who Moye yesterday sentenced to jail for opening her salon last week in violation of county and statewide shelter-in-place orders put in place to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
Luther had ignored repeated warnings from county officials to close the salon and had drawn a cadre of armed supporters who stood guard outside the salon after she opened last Friday, May 1. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced yesterday (Tuesday, May 5) that hair, nail and tanning salons can re-open beginning this coming Friday, May 8.
During the trial, Moye offered Luther the opportunity to avoid jail time by apologizing for breaking the rules and opening her salon while other salon owners continued the abide by the governor and Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins’ orders. Luther refused to do so, saying she wouldn’t apologize for opening the salon because she had done so she and the stylists who work for her could feed their children.
Moye sent Luther to jail for seven days and fined her $7,000.
In an email statement announcing he had sent the letter to Moye, Paxton accused the judge of having “abused his authority” in jailing Luther. He added, “I find it outrageous and out of touch that during this national pandemic, a judge, in a county that actually released hardened criminals for fear of contracting COVID-19, would jail a mother for operating her hair salon in an attempt to put food on her family’s table. The trial judge did not need to lock up Shelley Luther. His order is a shameful abuse of judicial discretion, which seems like another political stunt in Dallas. He should release Ms. Luther immediately.”
Dallas Voice contacted Judge Moye’s office for comment, but we were told he was unavailable at the moment.
At least one hairstylist in the LGBTQ community on Tuesday applauded the judge’s sentencing of Luther on social media while at the same time decrying Abbott’s announcement that salons can begin re-opening at the end of the week. Saying she believes it is too soon to re-open salons and that doing so will likely cause a spike in infections, the stylist said that Luther’s action had forced Abbott’s hand, She said she now feels pressured to start seeing clients before she thinks it is safe to do so, or risk losing business she desperately needs to other salons.
— Tammye Nash
What does LGBT have anything to do with this. I’m LGBT and disagree with the LGBT label used here. Leave it out, it’s not necessary.
Dallas Voice is the LGBTQ newspaper. We report on issues and events in the LGBTQ community and on LGBTQ individuals. We also report on issues and events in the community at large from an LGBTQ perspective.
This judge is a buffoon. Throw this a hole out in novembet
He is a fucking Monxey
your moms a monkey 😂 gtfoh
He is a stupid bald headed ape
Shame on you talking about yourself like that. FYI, you misspelled monkey you idiot.
So are you. It takes a monkey to know a monkey
True!
What’s up with you people that can’t spell and want to criticize the intelligence of others. The judge did his job.
If you don’t like the rules of this country, then leave.
Salon owner broke the law. That’s unpatriotic.
I HATE PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY KNOW WHAT THE LAWS ARE WHEN THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE FUCK THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT! THERE ISN’T ANY LAW. THAT MRS LUTHER BROKE. NO LAW PROHIBITING PEOPLE FROM WORKING OR STAY AT HOME OR ABIDING SOCIAL DISTANCING WAS EVER PUT FORTH OR VOTED ON IN OUR TEXAS LEGISLATURE SO THAT MEANS NO LAW IN OUR TEXAS LAW BOOKS. EXECUTIVE ORDER IS NOT A LAW BUT AN ORDER WHICH CAN BE CHALLENGED IN COURT. ALSO, ACCORDING TO ORDER IT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE LIFTED BY APRIL 30TH. HERE IS WHAT THE EXECUTIVE ORDER SAYS: The order “requires all Texans to stay at home except to provide essential services or do essential things like going to the grocery store,” he said in a video message released Wednesday afternoon, hours before the executive order went into effect.
In other words, the order does what many other governors’ recent orders do — just with different branding. The order is now in place until April 30.
JUST AS A POINT OF INFORMATION: You mention that Gov. Abbott’s order was lifted on April 30. He, however, had specifically said that only certain businesses would be allowed to start reopening on that date, and hair, nail and tanning salons were not among them. The order, issued during a declared state of disaster, specifically included wording allowing fines and even jail time for those in violation. However, Mr. Luther was actually not sentenced to seven days in jail and fined $7k for violating the governor’s order. She was sentenced on contempt charges for tearing up the citations that were issued to her by law enforcement. She did that deliberately and in front of TV cameras.
A buffoon is someone that tells U. S. Citizens that injecting disinfectant in their body might be the cure for a global pandemic.
If your unthinking LGBTQ stylist feels unsafe then she is welcome to stay her ass home. Other people have families to feed. Not a good look for you guys
You have no idea that there aren’t members who work for Shelley Luther, nor is it needed to put a yellow star on our members whether it’s for or against this issue. Shame!
And you couldn’t find an LGBTQ individual to disagree with the judge’s decision? The problem with identity politics is when you decide that your sexual identity somehow influences how you form an opinion. In fact, that’s an incredibly shallow take on people.
If it were related to sexual identity in a meaningful way, then by all means, go for it. But when you decide that EVERY SINGLE ISSUE is somehow influence by who you love and/or sleep with, because of “perspective” don’t be surprised when people can’t (and shouldn’t) take you seriously.
And based many replies to you, it appears they see you as a clown.
Tammye Nash, using unnamed sources, it is impossible to know if the statement is true. But who cares, in a city millions, you can find people that disagree. Her opinion is of no special value.
This racist liberal radical got a free ride on black train through best schools. Ride the system being black. Never based in actual ability.
White woman comes in front of him. Not black. Can’t get her on a date. Nothing for him! He could not even respectfully look at her during her statements. She looked at his weenie black ass with mask on when no one is within 50 feet.
This idiot must go. Period. What a racist loser black superior! You ain’t shit douche! I bet we investigate you got lots of hidden black shit! .
Triggered
And throw Paxon too
Shut up you ass humping, pussy lucking lgbtq motherfackers.
And how did white guys get to the bench? Rich white daddy buy their way because they do not have the cognitive ability to be lawyers?
Probably a result of filling positions with unqualified blacks just to fill a quota
This is what he’s been involved in.
Moyé was affiliated with the following associations:
State Bar of Texas
State Bar of New York
American Bar Association
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Dallas Bar Association
American Association for Justice
1990-1994: Harvard Law School Alumni Association of Texas President
1989-1992: Panel of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association
1989: Dallas Civil Liberties Foundation Treasurer
1987-1994: Dallas Civil Liberties Union
1987-1990: Dallas Symphony Association Governor
1985-1988: Permit and License Appeal Board, City of Dallas
1985: Dallas Homeowners League Political Action Fund
1985: Leadership Dallas
1984-1996: American Judicature Society
1984-1992: Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
1984-1986: Office of Public Utility Counsel Advisory Board
1984-1985: Harvard Law School Association of Dallas Centennial Committee Liaison
1983-1985: Mayor’s Task Force on Housing and Economic Development in Southern Dallas
1983-1985: St. Phillip’s Episcopal School Trustee
1980-1983: Dallas Urban League
1980-1989: Dispute Mediation Services of Dallas[2]
You, Mary, are an under-educated dumbfuck.
The judge is more highly qualified than the AG, Governor and most definitely the president.
So proud of you Moyé.
Yup, and even with all those credentials, he just proved in one case that he COMPLETELY lacks the compassion AND the discernment required to be a judge.
This guy might be a great lawyer but he has absolutely no business as a judge. He needs to go and he needs to go quick.
lmao you’re an idiot.
I work in the Courts and I see people go to jail for contempt for doing less than her and they ordered in custody by White Judges so are they incompetent, so don’t Judge his ability to interpret the law, you can be held in contempt for not removing your hat in the courtroom and it has happened by order of a white Judge, most of the hate on here stem from the fact that a Black Judge found a White woman in contempt, so don’t criticize his intelligence off this one case because if she was of color neither Paxton or Abbott would have weighed in and if Dallas was a Republican County and she was a person of color they probably would have applauded the decision.
John, what the heck are you talking about? Do you even understand the words coming out of your mouth? If you don’t like this country then go back to the caves of Europe like a bat out of hell from where you came from.
Unpatriotic unAmerican – Get out of my country and take that thug lowlife salon owner with you.
Then maybe he / she should have kept that trap shut…how’s that ? Sick of this crap, u don’t want to open ? Don’t open…u don’t tread on others civil rights but u progressive animals don’t get that, starting with that white hating judge…
This Judge is a flipping joke!!!! Release hard criminals to put someone that is a mother first in JAIL!!!!!! We own a small company and we worry about EVERY employee that works for us. I have been watching my husband stress himself to the point of almost having a heart attack because he wants them to be able to feed their families. Our employees are like our children when they hurt we hurt, unless you people have had to worry about feeding other families everyday then you have zero rights putting her down!!!! As for that biased, racist judge he will face his and I pray his employees don’t go hungry when he faces the music for judicial abuse……
well aid? It is not relevant to the story!
I meant well said!
Being gay has nothing to do with It. Being black has nothing to do with it. Being a stupid Democrat that does not understand that Covid skipped over Texas and that closing Queens NY makes sense but closing Dallas doesn’t is a pretty basic concept. Yes I taught at a major medical school and can do the math.
Because as usual the media will use any and all virtue signals it can. But, it doesn’t bother me since lbgt did this to themselves. We can’t even use the word gay without being labeled homophobic. That word does not mean only homosexual. We can’t have our i n feeling in the matter, even if we disagree but don’t care what you do. Our own opinions/beliefs are used against us So welcome to the party
Moye is about as ghetto as they come. He has publicly committed two assaults. One against fellow Judge Carlos Cortez in 2009. Another on May 13, 2016, that ratchet fool pointed a loaded firearm at a woman driver on Dallas North Tollway , a second degree felony, aggravated assault. It was reported by Dallas Morning News and others but of course the judge is above the law and it was swept under the carpet. He literally should be behind bars himself.
Moye is consistently rated the lowest of all judges in Dallas County in the Dallas Bar Association polls. He is an embarrassment to the judiciary.
Moye has completely abused and violated the use of his campaign contributions, using the money donated for fancy trips and dinners. You could say Moye is fancyghetto.
Moye brags that he is a Harvard Law School graduate. It makes one wonder why he would be so stupid to point guns at people and why so power hungry to throw white people in jail. It is because he was not smart enough to graduate from Harvard. He attended as a participant of affirmative action. Moye knows he is not smart enough to make the grade, so he takes it out on anybody he can.
Moye is an Affirmative Action graduate; not really Harvard material!
If he’s affirmative action, then what the heck are you dumbass. You could never live up to his credentials. White people get jobs based on who they know and can be as dumb as sh-*t, but daddy got them the job.
So don’t talk about affirmative action because blacks still had to be 3 times more qualified than you privilege, unqualified brats to even be considered for affirmative action.
So STFU
Queen, don’t be such a QUEEN. Your moronic analogy applies to maybe 5% of whites and I am not part of that 5%. No daddy never helped me. I have always worked hard but yet have had to compete against affirmative action. No privilege here you idiot.
This judge wanted to demean this woman and she did not take it. It is not his job to verbally abuse people. Just think what would have happened if this were reversed according to race. Our nation has become sick from liberal influence. Common sense has gone out the door. I do have to admire her for standing up for what she believed.
Amen to that. She has more courage that the judge.
Thankfully she was relased. What a travesty of justice. Total joke.
This is terrible, she wasn’t the only stylist that had to follow this order. What make her any better than the rest of us. She challenged authority and it don’t matter what color you are. Now I wonder if it was a black bald headed privileged black person riding the black train that sent those women in Laredo to jail!! I’m just saying. If the truth had to be told the cosmetology board should get involved because if we have to sit at home & try to figure it out!! She should also, her license are no different than mine!!Situations like this come with this profession!! She put people at risk!! Oh I forgot she’s a white woman. All of you that are mad too damn bad!! That judge can’t help that this bitch was showing her ass in his court! What was he suppose to do give her his robe and take his ass home!! She did 9 months in beauty school !! I’m just saying. Those jellyback ass politicians in Austinlet Trump punk them into opening our state back up with no plan at all. Punk ass motherf
Penny, yes! Yes! Thank you. Very well put. The judge gave her an opportunity to apologize but she acted a donkey. The other stylist of color didn’t have the privilege of apologizing but went straight to jail.
They were only trying to feed their families as well. Nobody paid their fee. Not one politician came to their rescue.
The hypocrisy of Luther’s supporters are beyond sanity. These people are pure evil.
Can an Affirmative Action graduate from Harvard really claim he has a degree from Harvard? Moye does. And because he suffered daily sitting in those Harvard classrooms with every other student absolutely knowing that Moye was not smart enough to be there, he takes it out by sitting behind the bench and lashing out at whitey.
Moye is obsessed with being the boss of you! He could not beat you while in college but he damn sure will beat you in the courtroom.
Moye is the worst judge in Dallas and that is saying a lot as most are dismal. He consistently rates the lowest of all judges in the yearly Judicial Evaluation Poll conducted by member of the Dallas County in the Dallas Bar Association. He is an embarrassment to the judiciary, to the community, to his family and to his race.
The 2019 poll indicates the only 33% of lawyers believed Eric Moye was impartial. And he scored (by large margin) the lowest of all the judges in the following category: Does this judge demonstrate a proper judicial temperament and demeanor? A dismal 14%
https://www.dallasbar.org/index.cfm?pg=judicial-evaluation-poll
Moye is about as ghetto as they come. He has committed at least two assaults because both were witnessed by the public. One assault was his attack on fellow Judge Carlos Cortez in 2009, in the courthouse. The second assault was a second-degree felony offense. On May 13, 2016, ratchet fool Moye pointed a loaded firearm at a woman driver on the Dallas North Tollway, otherwise known as an aggravated assault. The media reported the incident but of course this ghetto judge is above the law and neither the Dallas Police Dept not the Dallas County Sheriff’s Dept. have an incident report. The victim asked DPD for help but they said they could not. Moye would not be interviewed on the subject, just like he will not answer questions about throwing this lady in jail. Moye literally should be behind bars himself.
Moye consistently violates Elec. Code § 253.035, which states: A candidate or officeholder may not use political contributions for personal purposes. Moye uses the money donated to his campaigns for his personal pleasures, including fancy trips and dinners. One of his fraudulent reports reflects an $1,500 American Airlines ticket from Dallas to Austin? Nobody is buying any of that bullshit. Me thinks the report should have indicated a $1,500 first class seat to Puerto Vallarta or anyplace other than Austin, his attempt to charge it off as business.
Moye from da hood is ghettofabulous.
GOD HELP THE WHITE JUDGE WHO MAKES A BLACK WOMAN BEG FORGIVENESS TO STAY OUT OF JAIL.
They sought the opinion of “At least one hairstylist in the LGBTQ community” who applauded the judge’s sentencing. ROFL!!! No bias here folks!
I agree, that is what you get when he went to college on tax payer dime, went to law school on taxpayer dime and went on the public teet because he has no idea what it means to get off the public dole and earn a living like the tax payers who have paid his $150000 salary per year. That is the type of thinking you get and the ” judgement” one receives as a result. wake up America! What a pompous ass! Kick him out kick him out kick him out! Use your vote.
Why is it necessary to say the other stylist quoted is LGBTQ? Who cares..
Are you referring to comments from the stylist in the LGBTQ community? Or to using LGBTQ as a keyword? Either way, the answer is the same: Dallas Voice is the LGBTQ newspaper. We report on issues and events in the LGBTQ community and on LGBTQ individuals. We also report on issues and events in the community at large from an LGBTQ perspective.
Stay home Tamye.
Exactly. Keep doing what you do
What does the Q stand for?
The Q does double duty, actually: It stands for both “queer,” which is how some people choose to identify, and for “questioning.” Some choose to include I and A, as well — I standing for intersex and A standing for allies.
You’ve long ago crossed over into the hellish surreal, Tammye. It’s tragic.
I agree. It’s absolutely unnecessary to point out the opinion was from a LGBTQ person. There are better ways to improve your Google standings and social reach than just inserting key phrases into your piece that don’t add to your story. Now it reads like clickbait.
Once again, Dallas Voice is the LGBTQ newspaper. We report on LGBTQ people, events and issues, and we report on issues from the wider community from an LGBTQ perspective. If you are not interested in LGBTQ news and events, or if you are not interested in an LGBTQ perspective on “mainstream” news, get your news elsewhere. Thanks.
Lesson learned at 12 years old;
When it gets to be our turn, they change the rules!
Judge Moye didn’t understand that he’s us and she’s them!
Tammye, if I were LG blah, blah, whatever, I would be so embarrassed by your bratty and obnoxious replies. You are NOT garnering any respect from anyone … except the choir who already agrees with your silly “stick-it-to-’em” mentality. And my guess is that that is NOT the vast majority of the LG blah, blah whatever. Grow up. Or at least pretend to be a bit sophisticated. It gives one the air of superiority which is obviously what you lack and what you want so desperately.
Hi. I’m LGB whatever, and I don’t appreciate you speaking for my subsect of people. I don’t see this as a “stick it to them” article. Please don’t speak to Tammye that way, and please have a little bit of respect when speaking to members of any community that you are not a part of. Thank you, Mary.
Substitute the word heterosexual for every place you put LGBTQ and see how ridiculous it sounds to use your sexual identity to report current events.
If the stylist feels like it’s too soon for her to go back to work then she doesn’t have to. Maybe if her clients choose to go elsewhere they’ll come back when she feels ready to start working again. Or not. Everyone has a choice.
Tammye, we have more than 1 view. Stop putting LGBTQ. We don’t have group think, we don’t have 1 perspective, we are individuals with each of our own views and ideas. If you make us as a “group” , with a group agenda, you’re putting a target on our backs, so stop it! We don’t all agree! I’m starting to believe you want thr stereotype to continue….
Exactly! Totally irrelevant!
who cares what the lbqtg hairstylist thinks about anything
Well, obviously people in the LGBTQ community care about the opinion of an LGBTQ hairstylist, and the LGBTQ newspaper does as well.
Do you speak for all of the LGBTQ community? Looks like LGBTQ “Nate” is not on board.
My parents were in the entertainment business in the 50’s —-they had gay acquaintances-all good people with varied opinions–not of one mind. So if you speak for all of LGBTQ — a feather in your cap.
I appreciate the fact that you deleted my comments. So it is just as satisfying to me if you delete this one too. Like I said previously—of one mind. with no answers.
You are all racist sob that need to catch the covid19 virus especially shellby w e her damn name is then maybe you’ll see why theres rules in place.
She is an American business woman. F that lgbtqrs crap. Please!
Well, obviously, people who define themselves and their worth by the people they sleep with have no clue.
Me, I care and I appreciate the response. Considering the number of LGBTQ people in the industry it seems relevant.
Exactly! If she wants to stay closed and can afford it then do so!
All people involved in this story has been named–the judge, the AG, the stylist (defendant) . Adding a comment from an unnamed stylist ( possibly fictional) becomes a non sequitur because the actual point of the story has nothing to do with LGBTQ .
If the “shoe was on the other foot” and a member of the LGBTQ community were jailed for violating a shelter-in-place order would the Voice been consistent? Or is the LGBTQ community of one mind?
I was 100% certain which stylist Ms. Phelps was referencing and that the author rhetorically had to ask. It makes me question motives here.
So if it were a “straight” person who commented, that wouldn’t matter. Whatever. It doesn’t matter if you’re an LGBTQ community or not. Ridiculous.
I don’t care about this LGBT crap this shouldn’t even by part of the topic. This is total bull shit for her to be arrested. This bull shit about the coronavirus has been blown way out of proportion. Damn people need to stop blowing this shit out to the worst thing in the world. Has anyone besides me taken the time to look at all the viruses. This virus is nothing compared to anything including the common cold. Look at the numbers people do your own research stop listening to the uneducated liberals and make up your own minds.
My sister was on a ventilator for 22 days and is now in rehab to regain her strength. Our church organist had it and got better and thought he could go back to his regular activities – NOT! He had to dial it back down.
Hey PAX – I find it outrageous and out of touch that you are only arguing for the rich white girl. If anyone is abusing their power, it’s you! Show us you REALLY have convictions and argue for EVERYONE in the same situation. At least these people were actually trying to FEED THEIR CHILDREN. Shelly is a lie and she deserves to spend time in jail. If nothing more, than as an example.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8260193/Two-Texas-women-arrested-undercover-sting-offering-beauty-salon-services-home.html?fbclid=IwAR2vqW2cs8H8zBYYKrY9oBdZvYG4klsKfgMxOZibe-ACQWhqY9Uy-0GStfk
L. Love you have no reading comprehension at all. The judge VIOLATED the CONSTITUTION as well as her rights! Can you not understand that? And in addition, the judge is RELEASING hardened criminals from that jail due to coronavirus, yet puts her in it to get sick!
How did he violate her rights. Their was a stay at home law in place in which she violated. Just like going over the speed limit you are breaking the law. It’s amazing how so many people in this country think they are above the law and can do whatever they want.
I understand you report on LGBTQ issues, but your insertion of the acronym gives the impression that the LGBTQ community, as a whole, condemns Luther. Maybe you should have interviewed another stylist from the LGBTQ community that supported Luther and gave your article more balance.
Makes me wonder why all these anti LGBT people are even reading the Voice?
David, Tammye has no interest in fairness or equal time for anyone who opposes her. It’s a sickness and it isn’t curable. It’s called prejudice and it makes her quite the bore. And people are fed up with it.
Judge Moye is a piece of garbage. He feeds at the state trough and yet denies a middle-class working woman her livelihood.
Judge is a racist! Liberal zeolite. Free ride thru college being black. Free ride in practice being yep blackie. Free ride to Judge. Want to guess???? Black!
Using abusing the system. But if this asshole thought he could F this woman or she was black.,set her free. But this is a real woman and called your racist shut out ass hole! You douche.
Drug test him! Investigate. I bet weird shit like most entitled blacks.
zeolite: any of a large group of minerals consisting of hydrated aluminosilicates of sodium, potassium, calcium, and barium. They can be readily dehydrated and rehydrated, and are used as cation exchangers and molecular sieves.
Yeah – he’s probably that too!
Of course you would do that. Either you don’t understand context and thus can’t see the mistake , or you’re just a condescending leftist. No matter what, you’re not a journalist.
That judge has got to go. Who does he think he is . Making someone apologize for trying to supportheir family
How did he get where he is. Probably affirmative action.
Please post my comment
Frankly, Judge Moye should be ashamed of himself!! This is an egregious example of disregarding Ms. Luther’s civil rights to earn a living. In the face of so much animosity, where is his compassion & mercy? We ordinary people must earn a living, & we’re not receiving a government hand out.
The LGBTQ stylist is free to keep his/her/its salon closed until the end of time if that is what makes him/her/it comfortable. But if other salon owners want to open per the Governors decree, then why chastise them for it? Stay closed if you like, but don’t try to impute your personal rules onto others. Mind your own business and you won’t be minding mine.
The salon was open before the shut down ended. Why is it fine for two Hispanic women to be arrested and charged for offering services, but not a white woman?
There is a lot of racism here and it’s not coming from Judge Moye.
Amen. If Shelley Luther wasn’t prepared to do the time, then she wasn’t ready for civil disobedience.
Apparently she was ready for civil disobedience, as evidenced by the fact that she refused to bow down to the racist Moye and give him the apology he demanded.
Nonsense! It depends a lot on WHEN they were arrested, WHERE arrested (in what state?), and other factors. Stop the race whining. If you think this country is so horrible, then LEAVE! There are plenty of other illegal Hispanics flooding our borders to come sponge and STEAL from our disabled and other citizens which they’ve been doing for the last 100 years! I have witnessed it myself firsthand in our ERs for the last 30 years.
Read the article Girl. The queer stylist is admonishing the Gov and other salon owners for planning their re-opening this Friday.
The queer stylist says this is too soon. So, he/she/it can re-open at any point they want to, or never. It’s very simple, you do you, and leave the rest of them alone.
It’s obvious that the LGBTQ hair stylist, who obviously has some advanced medical degree of some sort, should have been consulted by the Governor of Texas prior to him deciding to allow the re-opening of hair salons in his state. How can you be a LGBTQ hair stylist anyway? Can you be Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, and Queer all at the same time? Also, when referring to Shelley Luther in your story, shouldn’t you have referred to her as, the straight hair salon owner Shelley Luther? I guess I shouldn’t assume she’s straight though. I support SLGBTQ.
The judge should be disbarred unless he is paying her bills every day
It’s time to go to work. That judge is a liberal idiot.
Where dId Luther run afoul………….? She came before “judge” Eric Moye’. Moye’, an unrepentant racist, a raging sociopathic, anti-freedom incompetent “judge”, a scheming, sickening political hack who demanded Luther get down on all fours and grovel, beg for forgiveness for simply attempting to live. To make a moderate living at best in the face of this SCAMDEMIC, this COVID-1984 as proffered by, that’s right, the ruthless NWO of which, yes, that’s right, also, aforementioned pieces if sh&t like Moye’ IS wholly a part of. He is nothing more than a downstream prostitute to his NWO pimps.
Under no circumstance render unto anyone other than the NWO. Do as they command. Be compliant, obsequious, a gelding, a capon. Witness your life progressively destroyed by these monstrous totalitarians and their insatiable lust for power, control……, BRUTAL CONTROL against your freedom, liberty, your very life. And remember, Shelly Luther, one of over 30 million now out of work was arrested, vilified, imprisoned by an entity which some of you shamefully support………… Martin Niemöller warned you about this, but you still have not listened. You know who he was, right………….???? Of course you don’t…………………..
I am extremely upset over the way Judge Eric Moye handled Shelley Luther because she needed to open her salon to feed her children. I hope the citizens of Dallas rise up and do whatever needs to be done to oust this arrogant Judge for telling her she was selfish and asking her to apologize. Reality check Judge Moye…..you should apologize to her. She is simply a hard working citizen and I think way more of this woman than you!!!!
You release criminals who have committed serious crimes and criminalize a hard working citizen. I hope you get no rest or peace until you make this right.
Shelley Luther now has a $450,000 go fund me. Does she still need that now that her fines have been paid and she is no longer in jail? If she does keep it, what will the money go to?
Vivienne, It’s really none of your business whether she needs the money or not and where the money will go. As one of the contributors, it’s fine with me if she gets ten times $450,000 and spends the rest of her life on a beach somewhere sunning herself.
It’s now half a million dollars and has been closed to further donations. Thank you, America. Shelley Luther is this generation’s Rosa Parks.
Frankly, I wouldn’t mind seeing some of this money go to unseating the tyrant Moye for violating his oath to protect and defend the state and federal constitutions. “Just following orders” doesn’t cut it in the Land of the Free.
Perhaps she and her attorney will SUE THAT JUDGE! They should sue him for defamation of character, violating her rights and the Constitution, for the time and money it cost including the attorney’s fees and the costs of operating her business, and for mental anguish. That’s why they should use the GoFund me account.
There was nothing remotely LGBTQ about this story until you gratuitously inserted the opinion of an LBGTQ hairstylist, as if that person speaks for the entire LGBTQ on this situation. Guess what, they don’t.
If you wanted to give this legal situation a true LGBTQ perspective, you would have interviewed some LGBTQ attorneys. They’d have plenty to say about this, but it wouldn’t fit the narrative you’re aiming to craft. Tammye, you’re a hack.
Please leave the salon closed if you support the continued quarantine. The salon that stays closed deserves to lose business. We all are going to die some day but no one should die from suicide and starvation. My mom is 75 with copd and cancer survivor. She wants to go anywhere she wants with no mask.
If I could only help – do you have vote by mail?
I’m an lgbtq+1 hairstylist and the judge is an idiot
Dumb conversation. It should be about American citizens loosing their freedom to some scum bag judge who thinks he is superior to everyone else.
Lesson learned at 12 years old;
When it gets to be our turn, they change the rules!
Judge Moye didn’t understand that he’s us and she’s them!
Did you hear the “judge” call an executive order a “law”? At best, the order is a very broad command from a police officer to stay in your car; disobeying the instructions of a peace officer. AND, Shelly’s remark about having kids to feed is AN ALLOCUTION, so she’s not in contempt!!!! That’s where the judge committed the most unlawful act against her. It’s like charging a blind man with malicious destruction of property because he landed on the car’s windshield when the car struck him in the crosswalk where HIS light was green. (That actually happened in Colorado).
Who the hell cares if this is lgbt or whatever related. We dont care! So tired of hearing this stupid shit day in and day out. I dont care what your sexual preference is and I dont think you care that I am not gay. Go on with your life everything isnt about you
Here you go Dallas area. Here’s his re-election site. Contact him through it and let him know what a pos he is. http://www.judgemoye.com/.
The Dallas Voice has been on a ventilator for the past 15 years. Nobody under 55 reads the Voice or the Morning News anymore. They are both irrelevant!
Eric moye is a piece of shit
Wow. This whole thread makes me want to take a shower. I am DISGUSTED at the racism of my fellow Texans. Disgusted but not surprised. And I am not the least bit surprised at the idiocy of some of them not realizing the Dallas Voice is a paper for the LGBT community and therefore will tie stories back to that community.
But really, the deplorables are out in force these days.
Thanks for this story, Tammye. I hope there is continued follow up on the clear dichotomy between the privileged white hair stylist collecting money and collecting money from her privileged pearl-clutching supporters and the two Latina stylists in Laredo jailed with no one sending letters to berate THEIR judge! Disgusting.
Were the “two Latina stylists in Laredo” by any chance ILLEGALS avoiding publicity? If they’re too lazy to get off their butts and hire an attorney, why should we listen to your racist whining?
Getting your hair cut will definitely spread corona virus. But liquor stores, hardware stores, cigar shops, and buying lotto tickets? No, that’s all perfectly safe and “essential.” So declares your petty government bureaucrats sans any scientific evidence. You’re not allowed to disbelieve them, and God help you if you act on your well-justified skepticism. The magnitude of stupidity, and the complete arbitrary nature of how business owners and their employees are being treated, just goes to prove America is in no danger of being overrun with geniuses. We are, however, in great danger of being overrun with petty tyrants and bullies masquerading as our protectors, but intent on destroying our rights and freedoms. Judge Eric Moye is a megalomaniacal tyrant and must go. He’s up for re-election this November. Hopefully Dallas residents won’t forget this incident and will scrape his self-righteous pompous ass off the bench.
AMEN to that! In the meantime the lady and her attorney need to countersue and PROSECUTE that judge not only for what he cost her in money, time, and distress but for the fact he VIOLATED the Constitution and had no authority!
Why would he chastise Moye when he stated to Moye that his client was prepared to go to jail when Moye said all she had to do was apologize and they did not want to apologize. Sooo this is becoming something orchestrated. She was supposed to apologize per Greg Abbott now everything is Moye fault when he was just adhering to the law. They wanted jail time so the Gofundme page would flourish as it is. This was all a publicity stunt for money.
How is any of this Moye ‘s fault when the case was set in his court, he did not go out looking for it. All she had to do was do as everyone else and cease she was so arrogant she would not even apologize either. All this is her fault and if it had been anybody else they may not have not only got off with 7 days in jail and a fine. She’s lucky that’s all she got and she chose jail, I would have apologized to stay out of jail that’s a no brainer. But oh yea the Gofund me page is flourishing. Yall who donated got played.
Aprl you are very foolish. The judge VIOLATED the CONSTITUTION! What part of that don’t you understand?
They are letting violent criminals out for fear they will get COVID in jail and they turn around and put a mother running a business to feed her kids where she could get COVID and bring it home and to the salon and the judge says it’s karma and now mercy? Who the hell do they think they are? Marie Antoinette?
Yes, just like Pelosi Mafiosi and the rest of the commiecrats.
This is terrible, she wasn’t the only stylist that had to follow this order. What make her any better than the rest of us. She challenged authority and it don’t matter what color you are. Now I wonder if it was a black bald headed privileged black person riding the black train that sent those women in Laredo to jail!! I’m just saying. If the truth had to be told the cosmetology board should get involved because if we have to sit at home & try to figure it out!! She should also, her license are no different than mine!!Situations like this come with this profession!! She put people at risk!! Oh I forgot she’s a white woman. All of you that are mad too damn bad!! That judge can’t help that this bitch was showing her ass in his court! What was he suppose to do give her his robe and take his ass home!! She did 9 months in beauty school !! I’m just saying. Those jellyback ass politicians in Austinlet Trump punk them into opening our state back up with no plan at all. Punk ass motherf
Judge Eric Moye is a human rights criminal. This violation will be punished. Judge Moye should have declared the State lockdown orders unlawful instead. It was his opportunity to make a positive contribution to society, yet he willingly chose to become a federal criminal.
“Your comment is awaitring moderation” proves that no truth exists on this rag of a criminal libtard website.
little lamb baaaaaaaaaaaa! april show me that law. laws have to be voted on. you can stay at home and hide!
you can wait for the govt , the rest of have to eat pay electric pay water pay rent so you just keep bending over!
He’s running for re-election this year. Hahaha! After this stunt, good luck with that!
I don’t understand the logic of releasing hard criminals so they won’t get Covid-19 and then putting a respectful mother who is trying to survive in jail for wanting to work and needing to in order to feed her family? We can’t let deluded liberals destroy our Country and turn logic on its head!
Thank you Tammye Nash. You are exactly right! This commiecrat judge had NO AUTHORITY to do what he did. In fact it is the JUDGE who is a CRIMINAL since he VIOLATED the CONSTITUTION!!! Unbelievable that a judge wouldn’t know the Constitutiion verbatim. And on top of that he condemns this woman to jail while he is releasing hardened criminals out of the same jail! He is also a flaming RACIST since you know he wouldn’t take that attitude to a black woman. She and her attorney need to DEMAND a formal and written letter of apology from the judge (then post it on the internet and send it round the world), prosecute him and fine him for the distress and money he caused her, and send the judge to prison with NO special protection from the other inmates! As a judge he is even MORE culpable than the average citizen!
The judge is a black gangster. he reminded me of Michelle Obama when she said this is the first time I’ve ever been proud of my country. Deep inside he has distain for the country and white people. Well it all backfired on him she will be released and now she has a nice go fund me account.
The attacks on Judge May’e are very disturbing. By all accounts, he is a well-educated, honorable, just, and highly respected judge. Our country is still one of laws. Whether we agree with the laws or not does not determine our obligation to comply with those laws. If we do not, there are consequences that we must suffer. In the case in question, the judge evidently went as far as he could by giving the defendant every opportunity to correct her actions, which actions are not only in direct violation of an executive order, but which violation was flagrantly exhibited by tearing up an order publicly. At a minimum, she should have been held in contempt of court.
Now, the people who should be giving the judge accolades including the governor who wrote the order and the attorney general who is supposed to prosecute our laws, are instead attacking him. The governor rewrote the order. The Supreme Court of Texas has released the defendant from jail. Judge May’e is getting threats of physical harm and his very distinguished career is marred at best and destroyed at worst. The defendant has collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions and is recognized as a hero. Those who do not agree with the executive order should take it up with the governor, not the judge. I would like to hire her publicist.
As a final note, we do not have any idea how many people the defendant put in jeopardy of being exposed to or catching the virus.
Put Judge Eric Moye in jail. Can’t believe he requested that she apologize for acting selfishly. This guy is nuts. Doesn’t deserve to wear the robe.
This judge is a piece of SHIT. Fuck you judge retard !!
Everyone that’s hurling insults and defending Shelley Luther is a clown. The judge didn’t violate her constitutional rights…Shelley Luther violate an executive order. Stop all the racist talk because the judge was black that sent this woman to jail. I’m willing to bet a $100 to an oatmeal cookie that this judge has sentenced more black defendants than white. Lastly, to all those that donated to her go-fund me page should be ashamed. There were many people more deserving like nurses, police officers, doctors, first responders that could have used those funds. Keep on supporting white privilege modern day idiots.
That black judge locked her ass up!!!!!!!!
Racist much?
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White or black..why is he still on the bench
after an altercation with another judge
and after aiming a GUN at a woman while traveling on a freeway in 2016..what is a felony
worth when a JUDGE isnt charged?..when
There WERE WITNESSES to what he actually
did???..where did the real law go on that incident??