Like Annie, thinking she would "benevolently" imprison Sheldon until he makes right by her beloved character Misery, doing the literary world a service by restoring him as a fantasy-romance novelist and destroying the "filthy" gritty reality-based novel he'd just finished before his car accident, this hick County Clerk and her "Holier Than Thou" attitude are eerily similar.
In this clerk's hateful mind she would deny love and defy the law to achieve what, exactly? Does she really think that she knows better than everyone else? Does she even for a second think she'll succeed in overturning a Supreme Court ruling? If she truly does, then she's just as crazy and deluded as Annie Wilkes was in "Misery" when she thought kidnapping and hobbling someone would be a plausible way to right what she saw as a wrong.