- cross-posted to:
- lgbtq_plus
- news@lemmy.org
- cross-posted to:
- lgbtq_plus
- news@lemmy.org
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.
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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.
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.