Palin showed up at Luther's salon for a photo op with the staff while on her way to visit her daughter in Austin. Paxton chimed in, speculating that whoever sentenced Luther to jail must be doing it as "another political stunt in Dallas." Luther has two college-age children and lives in a home valued at $.5 million. Once Abbott caught wind, he modified his order to eliminate jail time and the Texas Supreme Court - judges Nathan Hecht, Paul Green, Eva Guzman, Debra Lehrmann, Jeffrey Boyd, John Phillip Devine, Jimmy Blacklock, Brett Busby, and Jane Bland, most of them his appointees - stepped up with a letter ordering Luther to be released.ĭan Patrick jumped on board, stating, "I'm covering the $7K fine she had to pay and I volunteer to be placed under House Arrest so she can go to work and feed her kids." The case has also drawn national attention.
Dan Patrick, Attorney General Ken Paxton, The Masked Singer contestant Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and a group of open-carry fellas who showed up at her salon armed to the teeth to "defend" it.Īfter she made a spectacle of tearing up her cease-and-desist letter from Dallas County, Luther became a cause du jour from "Open Texas" advocates, one of whom helped set up a GoFundMe page, which has raised more than $500,000. Her act of defiance attracted attention from a rogue's gallery including Gov.
She was also fined $3,500, plus $500 for every day her salon is open until May 8, when all salons and barbershops are allowed to reopen in Texas. Shelley Luther, who was at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center in Dallas, was sentenced on May 6 when she re-opened her salon despite a state-wide order saying salons must be closed. A Dallas salon owner who defied a stay-at-home order designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus, got out of jail thanks to an intervention from the governor and the Supreme Court of Texas.