No Misunderstanding: “Iron Fist And Limp Wrist”

The Tennessee Board of Judicial Conduct has publicly reprimanded a chancellor for language in an order of dismissal that reflected his views of Obergefell v.Hodges.

The order is quoted in part

Although this Court has some vague familiarity with the governmental theories of democracy, republicanism, socialism, fascism, theocracy, and even despotism, implementation of this apparently new “super-federal-judiciary” form of benign and beneficial government, termed “klepocracy” by some and “judi-idiocracy” by others, with its iron fist and limp wrist, represents quite a challenge for a state level trial court.

The chancellor acknowledged that he “may have made an error” and that the order might be “misunderstood.”

He had later vacated the dismissal and granted the divorce. (Mike Frisch )