A few weeks ago the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that a 10 commandments monument (to the exclusion of other monuments) on the state capitol grounds was a violation of the separation of church and state (file that under “no shit”). But afterward Gov. Mary Fallin said the monument would remain. She tried to justify this by saying the state was asking the OK Supreme Court to rehear the case:

Gov. Mary Fallin on Tuesday said the Ten Commandments monument will stay at the Capitol despite a court ruling that said it violated the state Constitution and must be removed. Fallin said Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court to reconsider its 7-2 decision, which was handed down last week after a challenge by the ACLU of Oklahoma on behalf of three plaintiffs.

This, of course, was total bullshit. Asking for a rehearing isn’t a collection of magic words that allows you to ignore the ruling. You must act with the law now, not on how it *might* be tomorrow. To quote the ACLU’s lawyer who represented the plaintiff in the original case, “Looking at national trends, he can see a time when marijuana will be legal in Oklahoma, but he is not going to open a shop tomorrow.”

But now it’s clear the hypothetical future where the case gets reheard is not going to happen: the Oklahoma Supreme Court has declined to rehear the case (again, anybody with any legal knowledge knew this was almost certainly going to happen):

The state’s highest court on Monday denied a rehearing that had been requested by Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt. Chief Justice John Reif wrote in the court’s concurring opinion that justices carefully considered the Pruitt’s arguments on behalf of the Oklahoma Capitol Preservation Commission and found nothing to merit a rehearing in the case.

Yeah, because it turns out, “We don’t like it” isn’t a legal argument with any merit.

So let’s go back to what Gov. Fallin has said about this before. When Fallin first said the monument would remain she also said:

“Oklahoma is state where we respect the rule of law, and we will not ignore the state courts or their decisions,” Fallin said. “However, we are also a state with three co-equal branches of government.”

…she said completely ignoring the court’s decision. As Judge Judy famously said: “don’t piss on my porch and tell me it’s raining.”

Her representatives also made statements that suggested even when this decision came down they would resist:

[Alex Weintz, a Fallin spokesman] was asked if Fallin would refuse a court order to remove the monument. Weintz said he couldn’t answer that question at this time because an appeal is pending and no district court order has been issued to remove the monument. He said if the state lost its appeal, and a district court ordered the monument be removed, the governor’s office would address the question at that time.

So now that the State Supreme Court has spoken, let’s see what she says. After all, people ignoring court rulings Fallin and her voter base like would instantly be branded traitors and un-American. Let’s see if they have the integrity to abide by their own standards.