Whack Job Clerk Michele McQuigg to Appeal 4th Circuit Marriage Ruling

Michelle McQuigg - the face of anti-gay hate

My impression of Prince William County Circuit Court Clerk Michelle McQuigg (pictured above) to date is that she's a Maggie Gallagher or Victoria Cobb want to be.  The fact that she is being represented by the grossly inappropriately named Christofascists group The Alliance Defending Freedom speaks volumes about her extremism and Christofascist agenda.  In this regard, it is noteworthy that unlike McQuigg, Norfolk Circuit Court Clerk, George Schaefer has been represented by a legitimate law firm and sane legal counsel even if such counsel has argued in defense of mob majority rule and an amendment that at its heart was motivated solely by anti-gay animus.  Now, BuzzFeed reports that McQuigg and her hate merchant/batshit crazy counsel plan on appealing the ruling of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals which held that Virginia's same sex marriage bans are unconstitutional under the U.S. Constitution.  They have also filed a motion asking the 4th Circuit to stay its ruling. Apparently, McQuigg wants to go in the annals of history side by side with the proponents of segregation and opponents of interracial marriage.  Here are highlights from BuzzFeed:

A Virginia county court clerk plans to ask the Supreme Court to hear the case challenging Virginia’s ban on same-sex couples’ marriages, her lawyers informed a federal appeals court Friday.

On July 28, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a trial court ruling that Virginia’s ban violated the Constitution.

Prince William County Clerk of Circuit Court Michèle McQuigg — represented by a conservative legal organization, the Alliance Defending Freedom — informed the 4th Circuit Court appeals that she “intends to file a petition for a writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court within the ninety days permitted.”

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, meanwhile, said that she believes the court won’t “duck[]” the issue if it comes back to the justices, telling the Associated Press, “If a case is properly before the court, they will take it.”


As such, she asked the 4th Circuit to issue a stay of the mandate in the case — which would put the ruling in effect — pending the filing of the petition and, then, until the “Supreme Court’s final disposition” of the case.

Utah officials previously have said that they will be filing a certiorari petition with the Supreme Court seeking to defend their state’s ban.
Once a certiorari petition is filed by one party, it is possible that other parties could filed a petition for certiorari before judgment in order to give the justices more options to find the “perfect” case — but also so that the various lawsuits’ lawyers and supporting organizations can claim the title of defending the case at the Supreme Court.

McQuigg, for her part, has been a party to the Virginia case, and her lawyer was one of the two attorneys defending the ban before the 4th Circuit Court of Appeal when it heard arguments over the ban in May.

As such, she asked the 4th Circuit to issue a stay of the mandate in the case — which would put the ruling in effect — pending the filing of the petition and, then, until the “Supreme Court’s final disposition” of the case.

Like Victoria Cobb, McQuigg must be a truly miserable, bitter and foul individual if she can only feel justified in her life by striving to deny civil rights to others.  Like Cobb, I suspect she congratulates herself on her piety and "godliness" even as she seethes hatred and hypocrisy.   Once again, I also wonder what the Hell is in the water in Prince William County that a repressed, neurotic individual like McQuigg was elected as Clerk of the Circuit Court in the first place.