Judge orders AG Paxton and DSHS Commissioner Cole to court regarding contempt charges

[TexasTowelie]

This is relating to Paxton and Cole violating a court order that prohibits them from enforcing Texas law on same sex marriages. I am linking to the court order since I'm not an attorney and do not want to misinterpret the finding by the judge.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/273644462/Order-Granting-Motion-for-Contempt

Also, US District Judge Garcia also ordered DSHS Commish to immediately provide accurate death certificate to gay widower.

[TexasTowelie]

1. Another article from the Dallas Morning News:

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/08/till-death-do-them-part-except-in-texas-where-dying-man-sues-for-same-sex-death-certificate.html/

Update at 3 p.m.: Not only has U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ordered Texas officials to amend James Stone-Hoskins’ death certificate to list John as his husband, but the judge also ordered Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Kirk Cole, interim Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, to appear in his courtroom next week so he can decide whether they should be held in contempt for refusing to follow the law.

“The purpose of this hearing is to determine whether Defendants should be held in contempt for disobedience of this Court’s July 7, 2015 order, permanently enjoining Defendants from enforcing any Texas’s laws that prohibit or fail to recognize same-sex marriage,” he writes in the order below. “The parties may submit written pleadings and responses in relation to the motion for contempt, and for this Court’s consideration, no later than Monday August 10, 2015.”

It has been quite a week for the state’s top law enforcement officer.

Attorney Neel Lane, of course, could not be more thrilled with today’s outcome.