Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis found in contempt, going to jail

I'm just going to go way out on a limb and suggest that these lawyers were sleeping their way through law school. I hope the judge slaps them with costs for filing frivolous motions/appeals. It's time.

Interesting article about "Liberty Counsel" Davis's attorneys.
From link:

"But critics of Mathew Staver and his Orlando-based Liberty Counsel say that in standing by her as she defied federal court orders, the lawyers may have violated their duty to tell her she had no case.

“I think you have an ethical responsibility to tell your client she doesn’t have a legitimate cause of action,” retired Rowan Judge John Cox said.

New York University Professor Stephen Gillers, who has written widely on legal ethics, said a lawyer may not “understate the risks … to advance the lawyer’s own interests … or ideological agenda.”

http://www.courier-journal.com/stor...davis-counsel-did-they-do-her-right/71663292/
 
She is at it again, this is beyond her not wanting to sign gay marriage licences and has gone to the point of insanity

http://www.floridanewstime.com/regi...of-tampering-with-gay-marriage-paperwork.html
As part of the conditions of her release Davis was allowed to alter documents to remove her name, after protesting that including it on the licences would violate her Apostolic Christian beliefs.

At the time, lawyers were concerned that removing the name of the county clerk might call the validity of the licences into question, but were happy with a compromise that allowed the licences to be signed to the federal court.


However, lawyers assigned to each of Davis's staff after she was freed say she confiscated the original forms, and has since reissued new forms with changes that go beyond what was agreed.

Deputy clerk Brian Mason, who issued the marriage licences while Davis was in jail, says the new papers he has been given do not have her name, the name of the county or any references to the deputy clerks on them.

He said he is being forced to sign the licences as a 'notary public', rather than as a deputy clerk, and that there is a space for him to sign his initials, but not his signature.

Mason has been issuing licences on behalf of the whole county clerk's office since Davis's arrest, as he is the only member of staff who has no religious objection to doing so

Richard Hughes, lawyer for Mr Mason, said: 'Mr. Mason is concerned because he is in a difficult position.

'He continues to issue the licenses per the court's order ... which had some remote questionable validity, but now with these changes may in fact have some substantial questions about validity

'It also appears to this counsel those changes were made in some attempt to circumvent the court's orders and may have raised to the level of interference against the court's orders.'

Lawyers for David Moore and David Ermold, the gay couple who were initially denied a marriage licence by Davis, asked for a class action lawsuit to be filed.

They said: 'These alterations call into question the validity of the marriage licenses issued, create an unconstitutional two tier system of marriage licenses issued in Kentucky, and do not comply with this Court's September 3 Order prohibiting Davis from interfering with the issuance of marriage licenses.'

Davis, for her part, has argued that any licence issued without her name on it is invalid.
Davis's case comes after a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year which in effect legalized gay marriage across the entirety of the United States

By Kentucky state law, licences must be issued by the county clerk, before a minister or other officiant then performs the ceremony and signs the license.

Despite Davis's name being taken off of the papers, Kentucky's Democratic governor and attorney general have both said the licenses are valid and will be recognized by the state.

David Bunning, the federal judge, refused to give judgement on whether the licenses are valid, adding that it is up to gay couples to take that chance.

Mr Mason is the only person in Davis's office who has said he is happy to issue the licences, and agreed with his coworkers to give them out 'to ease the tension of the situation'.

It is unclear exactly what would happen if Mr Mason were absent from work, though Hughes said the other staff would be required to issue the paperwork.

So according to her everyone in the state has to live their lives by her rules who died and put her in charge?
 
I hope she enjoys her time back in the slammer. Apparently "Freedom of Religion" = "Freedom to alter state documents any way I like".
 
She is at it again, this is beyond her not wanting to sign gay marriage licences and has gone to the point of insanity

http://www.floridanewstime.com/regi...of-tampering-with-gay-marriage-paperwork.html
As part of the conditions of her release Davis was allowed to alter documents to remove her name, after protesting that including it on the licences would violate her Apostolic Christian beliefs.

At the time, lawyers were concerned that removing the name of the county clerk might call the validity of the licences into question, but were happy with a compromise that allowed the licences to be signed to the federal court.


However, lawyers assigned to each of Davis's staff after she was freed say she confiscated the original forms, and has since reissued new forms with changes that go beyond what was agreed.

Deputy clerk Brian Mason, who issued the marriage licences while Davis was in jail, says the new papers he has been given do not have her name, the name of the county or any references to the deputy clerks on them.

He said he is being forced to sign the licences as a 'notary public', rather than as a deputy clerk, and that there is a space for him to sign his initials, but not his signature.

Mason has been issuing licences on behalf of the whole county clerk's office since Davis's arrest, as he is the only member of staff who has no religious objection to doing so

Richard Hughes, lawyer for Mr Mason, said: 'Mr. Mason is concerned because he is in a difficult position.

'He continues to issue the licenses per the court's order ... which had some remote questionable validity, but now with these changes may in fact have some substantial questions about validity

'It also appears to this counsel those changes were made in some attempt to circumvent the court's orders and may have raised to the level of interference against the court's orders.'

Lawyers for David Moore and David Ermold, the gay couple who were initially denied a marriage licence by Davis, asked for a class action lawsuit to be filed.

They said: 'These alterations call into question the validity of the marriage licenses issued, create an unconstitutional two tier system of marriage licenses issued in Kentucky, and do not comply with this Court's September 3 Order prohibiting Davis from interfering with the issuance of marriage licenses.'

Davis, for her part, has argued that any licence issued without her name on it is invalid.
Davis's case comes after a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year which in effect legalized gay marriage across the entirety of the United States

By Kentucky state law, licences must be issued by the county clerk, before a minister or other officiant then performs the ceremony and signs the license.

Despite Davis's name being taken off of the papers, Kentucky's Democratic governor and attorney general have both said the licenses are valid and will be recognized by the state.

David Bunning, the federal judge, refused to give judgement on whether the licenses are valid, adding that it is up to gay couples to take that chance.

Mr Mason is the only person in Davis's office who has said he is happy to issue the licences, and agreed with his coworkers to give them out 'to ease the tension of the situation'.

It is unclear exactly what would happen if Mr Mason were absent from work, though Hughes said the other staff would be required to issue the paperwork.

So according to her everyone in the state has to live their lives by her rules who died and put her in charge?

Why is this woman not back in jail?
 


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She and the others do have legal options if their objection is religion based. They can make the martyr move to resign her position as she is unable to carry out her responsibilities to comply with the law. It is not unlike the fact that if your job requires you to pick up 50 pounds and you can't then you cannot do the job. That is how one handles this type of objection.

We do not have a god given right to alter the laws of the land in an attempt to force people to believe the same way as ourselves. They do, however, have the right to remove themselves from that situation. I believe it was Jesus that once said, give to Caesar what is Caesars, to god what is gods. The only obligation to moral laws that she feels are obligated to uphold is not to break them herself, not to tell others what they can and cannot do. I believe that according to that religious belief, there is a much higher authority that passes that judgment.
 
She was a word not allowed on DIS - now she is an attention "word".
 



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