The Texas hair salon owner imprisoned for opening her business in defiance of coronavirus lockdown orders has been released from jail and broke into tears thanking her supporters.
“I just want to thank all of you who I just barely met. And now, you’re all my friends,” Luther said on the jailhouse steps, moments after being released two days after her seven-day sentence for opening Salon A la Mode. “You mean so much to me, and this would have been nothing without you. Thank you so, so much.”
“I just want to thank all of you I just barely met. And now you’re all my friends.
You mean so much to me and this would have been nothing without you. Thank you so, so much.”
Texas salon owner Shelley Luther walks out of jail a free woman. pic.twitter.com/fMlwUarbbt
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 7, 2020
Earlier in the day, the Texas Supreme Court sided with Luther and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and called for her release.
“Throwing Texans in jail who have had their businesses shut down through no fault of their own is nonsensical, and I will not allow it to happen,” Abbott said in a statement. “That is why I’m modifying my executive order to ensure confinement is not a punishment for violating an order.”
Prominent conservative voices immediately took to Twitter to celebrate the news of Luther’s release.
“Shelley Luther for Texas Governor,” Fox News contributor and author Dan Bongino wrote after linking her release to news on the same day that former Trump national security adviser Mike Flynn was exonerated by the Justice Department.
“Maybe, just maybe, Mother Justice is escaping the shackles put on her by the deep-state goons, police-state thugs, & their disgusting media colluders. #ShelleyLuther #MikeFlynn,” he wrote.
Shelley Luther for Texas Governor. https://t.co/ZkZao1XbrX
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) May 7, 2020
“Shelley’s free! Shelley’s free!” Daily Caller opinion writer Eddie Zipperer tweeted.
“Shelley’s free! Shelley’s free!”
pic.twitter.com/BuWTn6HVv0— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) May 7, 2020
“Shelley Luther is an American Hero,” Parkland shooting survivor and conservative commentator Kyle Kashuv wrote.
Shelley Luther is an American Hero pic.twitter.com/gw2Ly1pxj6
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) May 7, 2020
