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ashling

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Mon Sep 7, 2015, 08:32 PM Sep 2015

Fox News Legal Panel: Kim Davis' Attorney's Defense Is 'Stunningly Obtuse' And 'Ridiculously Stupid'

Fox News Legal Panel: Kim Davis' Attorney's Defense Is 'Stunningly Obtuse' And 'Ridiculously Stupid'


Even Fox News know a charade when they see one. Watch as a legal panel destroys Rowan County clerk Kim Davis' attorney's claims.

Chip Merlin told Fox News' "Happening Now" host Gregg Jarrett that Davis' chances of winning an appeal are "pretty slim, almost none."

"I've been doing this for thirty years," Merlin said. "When a judges tells you to do something, and they tell you to do it – its an injunction n this case – and you refuse to do so you can expect to be thrown in jail."


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Jarrett then played a clip of Davis' attorney, Mat Staver, saying it is "questionable" whether the Supreme Court has the "constitutional authority" to rule that same-sex couples have a right to marry.

Calling Staver's statement "stunningly obtuse," the incredulous Fox New host explained how the law works

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