A federal judge has ruled that former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis must pay over $260,000 in attorney fees and expenses following her court case relating to her refusal to issue marriage licenses to a same-sex couple.<\/p>\n
Davis was briefly jailed<\/a> in 2015 for her refusal, and she was subsequently taken to court. Courts have also ruled that she must pay $100,000 in damages to the two men she had refused to work with.<\/p>\n Davis’ attorneys are expected to appeal Tuesday’s ruling.<\/p>\n Davis spent five days in jail for ignoring court orders to issue licenses to same-sex couples following a 2015 Supreme Court ruling allowing gay marriage. She argued that she was acting “under God’s authority,” and was freed after a judge ordered her deputies to issue the licenses without her approval.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS ALLOWS PRIESTS TO BLESS SAME-SEX COUPLES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Davis had run for re-election to the county clerk office in 2018, but she lost to a Democrat. She had argued that she would be able to certify same-sex marriages due to a change in Kentucky law dropping the requirement for licenses to contain the clerk’s signature.<\/p>\n PROGRESSIVES GRUMBLE AS RESPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT ADVANCES: \u2018I HATE THE SENATE BILL\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Davis was defeated in the 2018 election by Democrat Elwood Caudill Jr. 54% to 46%. One of Caudill’s challengers in the Democratic primary for the post was David Ermold, to whom Davis refused to issue a license.<\/p>\n After losing, Ermold accused Caudill of being an “anti-gay bigot.”<\/p>\n “I just want him to lose. I would rather Kim Davis win,” Ermold said ahead of the election. “At least Kim Davis has the integrity to stand up for what she believes in. Elwood Caudill is a liar.”<\/p>\n Fox News’ Andrew O’Reilly and The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A federal judge has ruled that former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis must pay over $260,000 in attorney fees and expenses following her court case relating to her refusal to issue marriage licenses to a same-sex couple. Davis was briefly jailed in 2015 for her refusal, and she was subsequently taken to court. Courts have … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}