Kim Davis, the former county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses in Kentucky to same-sex couples, must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple, according to a federal judge’s ruling.

That is in addition to $100,000 in damages a jury said the former Rowan county clerk should pay the couple who sued.

Davis drew international attention when she was briefly jailed in 2015 over her refusal despite the US supreme court’s legalization of same-sex marriage. She based her refusal on her belief that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.

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    Eff yeah! EAT S*$% you hateful monster!

    A little good news goes a long way these days, when there’s so little of it. TY OP for the post.

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      Talibangelicals don’t hate Islam because of some Crusader-Era kink. They just don’t like Arabs, Persians, and other shades of Brown Person. Reverend Wright ate all the same shit, despite being at least as Protestant as the last ten Presidents.

      There’s actually some speculation as to whether the modern day Joe Rogan / Andrew Tate conservatives are tacking towards Islam. Certainly, with all the free money the Saudis and Qatars are pumping into western broadcast athletics (golf, MMA, even e-Sports) I wouldn’t be surprised to see more high profile Muslims stepping into the same role that guys like Hakeem Olajuwon and Muhammad Ali once filled.

      In another generation, our Ben Shapiros and Steven Crowders could very well be replaced by Jordan B. Peterson in a skull cap.

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    Yeah, sure, she’ll take that out of her -$26,100 net worth and get right on paying that back.

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      I thought she rode the MAGA grifter wave for a while. I’m sure she pissed away all her grift money already, but maybe she actually has some assets left from the hate train.

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      You’re not wrong, although I do wish that in situations like these, where the guilty party knew what they were doing was wrong but did it anyway based on their own personal beliefs, that the debts incurred would be as persistent as their beliefs.

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    Glad she’s finding out, but she can probs fundraise her way out of that in a few hours via the right-wing griftiverse. There’s no amount of money that hate-filled right wing grannies won’t give to assholes that they think will stick it to the libs.

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      I actually was doing the math on this kind of thing lately, but it was RE: Alex Jones/Sandy Hook.

      So, the average US lifespan is about 77.

      So a court case taking 10 years is about 1/10th of your entire life.

      Now, consider that the beginning of your life (say up to 13 or so) you’re not really in any mental position to be able to bring a court case. At the end of your life (similarly probably the last 15 years or so), you’re in a similar position, where your body and mind may be failing and you may not be in a position to bring a court case.

      So if we cut off the “unusable in court” years of our lives, we’re left with about 50 years of good quality “living” as an adult.

      That means a court case taking 10 years is actually closer to 1/5th of your entire life.

      How is a life where a large portion of it was fighting in court just to get a bare minimum of what is passing for justice a quality life?

      Do people not understand the passage of time and these are literally lives being wasted fighting for justice from fucking idiots?

      I understand the whole “court moves slow” but god damn there’s got to be a better fucking system than making people wait out giant chunks of their lives for a pathetic half-ass result that isn’t anywhere close to “justice.”

      It’s a fucking travesty that anyone defends it. It’s a broken ass system, stop acting like we can fix something that places such little value of the time spent on such things in a persons life.

      Seriously if I had spent that many years trying to claw back justice from a fuckwit like this or Alex Jones, I would not look back and think I had had a chance to have a “life well lived.” No, the “justice” system took that from me by taking its sweet fucking time.

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        I’m not sure I follow your point. Do you think people actually do nothing but sit in court for hours every day while a case goes through multiple appeals?

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          Well for starters these people have had a huge bill hanging over their heads. Also the court case can determine how they must live their lives. Apart from that it puts a huge stress on people waiting in uncertainty of what will be decided, without really being able to do much about it.
          So although it may not take life quality away equally for all, there is absolutely a risk that it does to a very high degree. And as always with such things, it generally hits the little guy way harder than rich people.

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            In many cases, your point would be valid. In this particular case, the ACLU sued on the plaintiffs’ behalf, and would cover the legal bills if the courts hadn’t ordered Kim Davis to pay.

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          “Those wronged have to wait 1/5 the average human lifespan for justice.”

          There. I can summarize it for you, but I can’t understand it for you.

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            That’s not true, though. The wronged parties already got what they wanted. They were issued their marriage license while she was in prison. The ACLU’s purpose in suing Davis for damages and legal fees is to make sure that the precedent is clearly established and other officials will be dissuaded from pulling similar stunts in the future. Worst case scenario at this point is that the ACLU is on the hook for the legal fees.

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      that’s a feature. it lets the powerful fuck over the powerless without consequence because the powerless can’t afford to take a decade of their lives off fighting in court.

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    They’ll never see it.
    I bet they could repo her trailer and take all her shit and they still wouldn’t get more than $26,000.

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      I feel like lawyers in a high profile case will make sure every single penny is squeezed out of her until she dies

      At least I hope so.

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      That’s still a bit of a win then. Better to completely drain one of these monsters than a 250k slap on the wrist for wealthy scumbags like trump.

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    I’m glad this is the ruling. …even if I know there will be a GoFund to pay this off, and she’ll probably be running for Congress in no time on the platform of “Elect me to legitimize our homophobia.”

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      It would be a shame if GoFundMe was breached and everyone could see who donated to her. Maybe all of those people would suffer consequences for being huge assholes, too.

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      See this is what I’m legitimately curious about. Was she able to turn her grandstanding into a lucrative side-gig of being a political speaker or author? It appears people in a position to make national news for the christo-fascist right have potential millions to be made by just playing their cards right. I imagine if she started a podcast around when she made national news, she could have gained a strong enough following to be well into a lucrative career doing speaking engagements, and could probably even push into a television show on a religious or political network.

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      Generally, states where County Clerk is an elected position are states where county-level government is particularly important and powerful. For example, the Clerk might be in charge of elections or determining property values for tax assessment.

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      Its an administrative position in the municipal bureaucracy. Not totally outlandish to have an election to fill it. In this particular case, she’s made a small fortune in campaign donations by doing a pouty face for the national news every time she’s caught violating the oath she took to assume the job.

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    But why? All she did was deny a sanctioned government service to an entire class of people. /s

    Unfortunately I’m sure she’ll turn this into another fundraiser paid for by her fellow Christian fundamentalists.

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      Unfortunately I’m sure she’ll turn this into another fundraiser paid for by her fellow Christian fundamentalists.

      She already turned it into a lucrative career on the fascist misinformation circuit days after she first made national news, raking in probably millions of dollars since then.

      And yeah, I’m sure you’re right that this will serve as an additional income booster for her 😮‍💨

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      Apparently not, still on the fourth one to the second husband.

      Honestly this is the kicker for me

      Shortly after the same-sex marriage license controversy, Davis said she and her husband switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.

      At least they recognized their true nature.

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    it warms my heart that, eight years later, she’s still feeling a very expensive sting from her absolute and unwavering cuntery.