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Just minutes after a judge ordered Kim Davis released from jail on Tuesday, her lawyers told CNN that she would violate a court order by forcing her clerks to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
An order from U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning said on Tuesday that Davis would be released after serving six days in jail on the condition that she shall not interfere in any way, directly or indirectly, with the efforts of her deputy clerks to issue marriage licenses to all legally eligible couples.
CNN correspondent Martin Savidge, who was at the jail, explained following the order that her attorney, Harry Mihet, said that the judge had ordered the release because her office had satisfied the court by issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples while she was behind bars.
The problem here is that the attorney says she has not changed her mind, that Kim Davis is adamant that as long as her name appears on those marriage licenses, she objects and she will attempt to stop those licenses from being distributed, Savidge reported. Which means if she goes back on the job as is expected, she will bring the process to a halt. Thats what her attorneys believe.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/lawyers-vow-kim-davis-will-violate-court-order-and-halt-marriage-licenses-after-release-from-jail/
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)of contempt, an actual criminal indictment, and not facial contempt that can be purged.
Exactly how will she "stop the issuance of the marriage licenses"....by sitting on the office Printer?
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How long until the first push polls claiming there is "a split in public opinion"..... Without noting the inherent insanity of abandoning the rule of secular law?
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)I saw the clips from her victory party on CBS. I rarely watch the news, but it was on. Three thousand bigots there, screaming her name.
She sure was soaking up the adulation, and the flies were on her. I almost (note the "almost" feel sorry for her. She does not strike me as sophisticated enough to know how terribly taken advantage of she is. The bigotry is a huge part of her actions, obviously, but so are the presidential candidates and Faux News sermons and adulation from other bigots, and eventually "sweet, sweet bigot money," to quote Dan Savage. She doesn't understand that it isn't about her OR gay marriage.
It's about the Right Wing making money for themselves and dividing the electorate (which is also about making money).