Bad News for Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis

[Coolest Ranger]

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/breaking_6th_circuit_slaps_down_kim_davis_request_for_stay_must_issue_licenses_monday.

A three judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has just refused Rowan County clerk Kim Davis' request for a stay on a lower federal court judge's ruling ordering her to issue marriage licenses to couples regardless of gender.

Davis claims issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples is a violation of her religious liberty. Her attorneys claim doing so would "substantially and irreparably" burden Davis' "conscience and deeply-held, sincere religious beliefs which dictate to Davis that such unions are not and cannot be 'marriage.'"

More at the link above

So now the question is this, is she going to still defy the court order?

[hobbit709]

1. I think 30 days in the hole for contempt would do wonders for her attitude.

[irisblue]

2. from WKYT a local TV station

this order from the 6th circuit court sure sounds like a legal slap to me...........................................................A three judge panel, which filed the order Wednesday in federal court, wrote a strongly-worded order that said there is "little or no likelihood that the clerk in her official capacity will prevail on appeal."In Wednesday's motion, the appeals court points out that "a state is not permitted to bar same-sex couples from marriage on the same terms as accorded to couples of the opposite sex" and Davis "unilaterally decided that her office would no longer issue any marriage licenses."The request for a stay pending appeal relates solely to an injunction against Davis in her official capacity," the document says. "The injunction operates not against Davis personally, but against the holder of her office of Rowan County Clerk."

The order goes on to say that "it cannot be defensibly argued that the holder of the Rowan County Clerk's office, apart from who personally occupies that office, may decline to act in conformity with the United States Constitution as interpreted by a dispositive holding of the United States Supreme Court. There is thus little or no likelihood that the clerk in her official capacity will prevail on appeal."

[COLGATE4]

3. I smell another Go Fund Me Fundie millionaire in the making. nt

[hifiguy]

5. I'd put five bucks on that likelihood.

Yup, I would indeed.

[roscoeroscoe]

4. Yes

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