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Defendant Davis shall be released from the custody of the U.S. Marshal forthwith. Defendant Davis shall not interfere in any way, directly or indirectly, with the efforts of her deputy clerks to issue marriage licenses to all legally eligible couples. If Defendant Davis should interfere in any way with their issuance, that will be considered a violation of this Order and appropriate sanctions will be considered.
Defendant Davis shall be released from the custody of the U.S. Marshal forthwith. Defendant Davis shall not interfere in any way, directly or indirectly, with the efforts of her deputy clerks to issue marriage licenses to all legally eligible couples. If Defendant Davis should interfere in any way with their issuance, that will be considered a violation of this Order and appropriate sanctions will be considered.
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Other politicians supported Davis. GOP Presidential Candidate [[Mike Huckabee]] urged Americans to stand against the "criminalization of Christianity" and emceed a rally for Davis outside the jail where she had been held.<ref name="cnn1">{{cite news |last=Hanna |first=Jason |title=Kim Davis released, but judge bars her from withholding marriage licenses: At rally, Republican presidential hopeful takes center stage |date=September 8, 2015 |publisher=[[CNN]] |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/08/politics/kim-davis-same-sex-marriage-kentucky/ |accessdate=September 8, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Lee |first=Tony |title=Mike Huckabee: We Must Stand With Kim Davis Against 'Criminalization of Christianity'
Other politicians supported Davis. GOP Presidential Candidate [[Mike Huckabee]] urged Americans to stand against the "criminalization of Christianity" and emceed a rally for Davis outside the jail where she had been held.<ref name="cnn1">{{cite news |last=Hanna |first=Jason |title=Kim Davis released, but judge bars her from withholding marriage licenses: At rally, Republican presidential hopeful takes center stage |date=September 8, 2015 |publisher=[[CNN]] |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/08/politics/kim-davis-same-sex-marriage-kentucky/ |accessdate=September 8, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Lee |first=Tony |title=Mike Huckabee: We Must Stand With Kim Davis Against 'Criminalization of Christianity'
|date=September 7, 2015 |publisher=[[Breitbart (website)|Breitbart]] |url=http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/07/mike-huckabee-we-must-stand-with-kim-davis-against-criminalization-of-christianity/ |accessdate=September 9, 2015}}</ref> GOP Presidential candidate [[Ted Cruz]] said Davis was a victim of "judicial tyranny" and attended the same rally.<ref name="cnn1"/><ref>{{cite web |last=Sneed |first=Tierney |title=Ted Cruz: 'I Stand With Kim Davis' |date=September 3, 2015 |work=[[Talking Points Memo]] |url=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ted-cruz-kim-davis-contempt |accessdate=September 4, 2015}}</ref> Governor [[Bobby Jindal]] and Senator [[Rand Paul]] also voiced their support for Davis,<ref name="thinkprogress1"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Byrnes |first=Jesse |title=GOP candidates blast 'absurd' jailing of Kentucky marriage clerk |date=September 3, 2015 |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |url=http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/252732-gop-candidates-blast-absurd-jailing-of-kentucky-marriage-clerk |accessdate=September 7, 2015}}</ref> while [[Matt Bevin]], a Kentucky GOP gubernatorial candidate, said "a license should not be needed" from the government for same sex marriages.<ref>{{cite news |title=Matt Bevin Responds to Kim Davis's Arrest |date=September 3, 2015 |work=[[WTVQ-DT]] |url=http://www.wtvq.com/2015/09/03/matt-bevin-responds-to-kim-daviss-arrest/ |accessdate=September 7, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Matt Bevin calls on Governor Steve Beshear to uphold Kentuckians' individual liberties |date=September 3, 2015 |publisher=[[WBKO]] |url=http://www.wbko.com/news/headlines/Matt-Bevin-calls-on-Governor-Steve-Beshear-to-uphold-Kentuckians-individual-liberties-313488111.html |accessdate=September 7, 2015}}</ref>
|date=September 7, 2015 |publisher=[[Breitbart (website)|Breitbart]] |url=http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/07/mike-huckabee-we-must-stand-with-kim-davis-against-criminalization-of-christianity/ |accessdate=September 9, 2015}}</ref> GOP Presidential candidate [[Ted Cruz]] said Davis was a victim of "judicial tyranny" and attended the same rally.<ref name="cnn1"/><ref>{{cite web |last=Sneed |first=Tierney |title=Ted Cruz: 'I Stand With Kim Davis' |date=September 3, 2015 |work=[[Talking Points Memo]] |url=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ted-cruz-kim-davis-contempt |accessdate=September 4, 2015}}</ref> Governor [[Bobby Jindal]] and Senator [[Rand Paul]] also voiced their support for Davis,<ref name="thinkprogress1"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Byrnes |first=Jesse |title=GOP candidates blast 'absurd' jailing of Kentucky marriage clerk |date=September 3, 2015 |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |url=http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/252732-gop-candidates-blast-absurd-jailing-of-kentucky-marriage-clerk |accessdate=September 7, 2015}}</ref> while [[Matt Bevin]], a Kentucky GOP gubernatorial candidate, said "a license should not be needed" from the government for same sex marriages.<ref>{{cite news |title=Matt Bevin Responds to Kim Davis's Arrest |date=September 3, 2015 |work=[[WTVQ-DT]] |url=http://www.wtvq.com/2015/09/03/matt-bevin-responds-to-kim-daviss-arrest/ |accessdate=September 7, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Matt Bevin calls on Governor Steve Beshear to uphold Kentuckians' individual liberties |date=September 3, 2015 |publisher=[[WBKO]] |url=http://www.wbko.com/news/headlines/Matt-Bevin-calls-on-Governor-Steve-Beshear-to-uphold-Kentuckians-individual-liberties-313488111.html |accessdate=September 7, 2015}}</ref>

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Deputy Clerk Brian Mason said he would continue issuing licenses after Davis's release.<ref name=Kent0909 />


===Official misconduct===
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Kim Davis
Clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 5, 2015[1]
Preceded byJean W. Bailey
Personal details
Born
Kimberly Jean Bailey

(1965-09-17) September 17, 1965 (age 59)[2]
Morehead, Kentucky, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouses
  • Dwain Allen Wallace
      (1984–1994)[3]
  • Joe Davis
      (1996–2004)
  • Thomas Dale McIntyre Jr.
      (2007–2008)
  • Joe Davis
      (2009–present)[4]
Residence(s)Morehead, Kentucky
Known forRefusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following Obergefell v. Hodges

Kimberly Jean Bailey Davis[5] (born September 17, 1965) is a Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk who defied a U.S. Federal Court order requiring that she issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the Obergefell v. Hodges U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage in the United States.[6][7][8][9]

Davis refused to issue a marriage license to David Moore and David Ermold, a same-sex couple of 11 years, as well as three other couples, two of them being heterosexual.[10] The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky ordered Davis to issue licenses as required by law in August 2015. In response, her lawyers filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court seeking to put the lower court's order on hold while she pursued an appeal. The Supreme Court subsequently denied the application,[11] but Davis continued to deny the licenses, saying she was acting "under God's authority". Davis was jailed for contempt of court on September 3, 2015, and released five days later. On September 9, 2015 Kentucky's attorney general decided not to appoint a special prosecutor to pursue charges of official misconduct against her.

Career

Deputy clerk

For 24 years, Davis served as chief deputy clerk of Rowan County, reporting to her mother, Rowan County Clerk Jean W. Bailey.[12] Kentucky law permits elected county officials to employ their family members and to determine their compensation.[12]

In 2011, county residents complained about Davis's compensation, an annual wage of $51,812 and an additional $11,301 in overtime and other compensation during 2011.[12] While deputy clerk, Davis earned more than other chief deputies in the county: Chief Deputy Sheriff Joe Cline received $38,000 annually and Deputy Judge-Executive Jerry Alderman $36,000 annually; neither positions receive overtime pay.[12] After the County Fiscal Court reviewed the compensation of clerks in the office a vote was taken with the result being a unanimous decision to cut the County Clerk's office budget for salary by one-third for 2012.[12]

2014 election

After her mother announced she would not run for re-election in 2014, Davis submitted her name as a Democratic candidate for county clerk.[13][13] At a candidates forum, Davis stated she felt she was best qualified for the position because of her 26 years of experience in the clerk's office.[14]

Davis won the Democratic Party primary,[13] advancing to the general election against Republican John Cox.[15] After defeating Cox in the general election, Davis told the Morehead News, "My words can never express the appreciation but I promise to each and every one that I will be the very best working clerk that I can be and will be a good steward of their tax dollars and follow the statutes of this office to the letter."[15][16][1]

Davis took the oath of office for Rowan County Clerk on January 5, 2015, beginning a four-year term slated to end on January 7, 2019.[17][18] As clerk, Davis receives an annual salary of $80,000.[4][9]

Same-sex marriage ruling

Main article: Miller v. Davis

On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case of Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. ___ (2015), holding in a 5–4 decision that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.[19][20]

Following the ruling, eighteen counties in three states–Alabama, Kentucky, and Texas–continued to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Eleven counties in Alabama, as well as Rowan County, stopped issuing licenses altogether rather than issue them to same-sex couples.[21][22]

In August 2015, federal district judge David L. Bunning of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky ruled she must issue marriage licenses to all applicants, and both that court and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to stay that ruling pending appeal. The Supreme Court refused to allow Davis to continue to deny marriage licenses to all couples, gay or straight. "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," a unanimous three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit wrote in refusing to extend an appeal for Davis. "There is thus little or no likelihood that the clerk in her official capacity will prevail on appeal," the panel further said.[23]

However, Davis continued to defy Bunning's order, even after the Supreme Court effectively upheld it.[5][24] When several couples sought to obtain marriage licenses, Davis turned them down, saying she was acting "under God's authority".[6] Some sources have questioned whether Davis, having been married four times, was acting hypocritically in the "application of her beliefs".[25][26][27][28]

Contempt hearing

File:KimDavis.jpg
Davis' booking photo from the Carter County Detention Center

Bunning ordered Davis and her six deputy clerks to appear before him on September 3 in Ashland after two gay couples and two straight couples sought to have her held in contempt of court.[29][30] The four couples and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked the court to fine Davis rather than incarcerate her.[31] Bunning ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and held Davis in contempt, but remanded her to custody after the hearing. The judge said she will remain incarcerated until she complies with the court's order to issue marriage licenses.[32][33] Bunning reportedly said that fines were not an option "because outsiders would pay them for her."[34] Of the six deputy clerks who report to Davis, only Davis's son Nathan refused to comply with the court's order to start issuing marriage licenses.[6] After the hearing, Davis was transported by the U.S. Marshals to the Carter County Detention Center in Grayson.[35]

Davis is represented by attorneys from the law firm Liberty Counsel.[36][37] On August 31, in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to grant her stay request, she said:

I never imagined a day like this would come, where I would be asked to violate a central teaching of Scripture and of Jesus Himself regarding marriage. To issue a marriage license which conflicts with God's definition of marriage, with my name affixed to the certificate, would violate my conscience. It is not a light issue for me. It is a Heaven or Hell decision. For me it is a decision of obedience. I have no animosity toward anyone and harbor no ill will. To me this has never been a gay or lesbian issue. It is about marriage and God's Word.[38]

Attorneys for Davis filed an emergency motion appeal asking that Davis be immediately released from jail.[39] Separately, Davis asked Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear to free her.[39] The governor's office continued to maintain the conflict was a "matter between her and the courts."[39] Rowan County Democratic Judge-Executive Walter Blevins,[40] who said he didn't believe he would need to appoint a replacement for Davis, said he believes "the General Assembly will pass something where marriage licenses don't have anyone's name on them. Jack Conway is saying the same thing,"[41] referring to the Attorney General of Kentucky.

On September 8, Bunning ordered Davis released from jail.[42][43] The order stated:

Defendant Davis shall be released from the custody of the U.S. Marshal forthwith. Defendant Davis shall not interfere in any way, directly or indirectly, with the efforts of her deputy clerks to issue marriage licenses to all legally eligible couples. If Defendant Davis should interfere in any way with their issuance, that will be considered a violation of this Order and appropriate sanctions will be considered.

Deputy Clerk Brian Mason said he would continue issuing licenses after Davis's release.[44]

Reaction

Katherine Davis, a law professor at Columbia University, said "Kim Davis has all sorts of religious liberty rights secured under the First Amendment and under other laws, but they are not at stake in this case. All she's asked to do with couples that come before her is certify that they've met the state requirements for marriage, so her religious opposition to same-sex marriage is absolutely irrelevant in this context."[45] Steven R. Shapiro, legal director of the ACLU, said, "The law is clear and the courts have spoken. The duty of public officials is to enforce the law, not place themselves above it."[46] Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin and others have compared Davis's refusal to follow court orders to Alabama Governor George Wallace's 1963 segregationist Stand in the Schoolhouse Door incident.[47][48][49] The Human Rights Campaign said "Ms. Davis has the fundamental right to believe what she likes ... but as a public servant, she does not have the right to pick and choose which laws she will follow or which services she will provide."[23]

Supporters of Davis also spoke out. Liberty Counsel, the law firm defending Davis, wrote that "Kim Davis is being treated as a criminal because she cannot violate her conscience"[50] and went on to say that she would not accept a proposed compromise to not interfere with her deputies issuing licenses for same-sex couples.[33] Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers also came to her defense; in an amicus briefing to U.S. District Judge David Bunning, he wrote "I am requesting Judge Bunning delay, withhold or temper his ruling in this case until the General Assembly has an opportunity to establish new frameworks under Kentucky law."[51] After deputy clerks began issuing marriage licenses in her absence, Davis, through her attorneys, stated that any marriage licenses not bearing her signature were invalid,[52] while Rowan County Attorney Cecil Watkins dismissed her argument.[53]

Reactions to the litigation against Davis also came from politicians: from the White House, from the Governor of Kentucky, and from candidates in the race for the 2016 presidential election. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said "No public official is above the rule of law, certainly not president of the United States, but neither is the Rowan county clerk."[54][55] Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear said "the future of the Rowan County clerk is now in the hands of the courts."[56][57] Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said "Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law – end of story."[58][59] GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump said "the decision's been made, and that is the law of the land".[60][61] GOP Presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Davis "is sworn to uphold the law."[59] Carly Fiorina, Senator Lindsey Graham, Governor Chris Christie, and Governor John Kasich took a stance similar to Bush.[62]

Other politicians supported Davis. GOP Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee urged Americans to stand against the "criminalization of Christianity" and emceed a rally for Davis outside the jail where she had been held.[63][64] GOP Presidential candidate Ted Cruz said Davis was a victim of "judicial tyranny" and attended the same rally.[63][65] Governor Bobby Jindal and Senator Rand Paul also voiced their support for Davis,[62][66] while Matt Bevin, a Kentucky GOP gubernatorial candidate, said "a license should not be needed" from the government for same sex marriages.[67][68]

Official misconduct

The Rowan County Attorney's Office said it has referred to the Attorney General of Kentucky Jack Conway's office a charge of official misconduct against Davis.[69] The decision of whether to file charges is up to the Attorney General Conway.[70]

According to Kentucky Revised Statute 522.020,

A public servant is guilty of official misconduct in the first degree when, with intent to obtain or confer a benefit or to injure another person or to deprive another person of a benefit, knowingly commits an act relating to his office which constitutes an unauthorized exercise of his official functions or refrains from performing a duty imposed upon him by law or clearly inherent in the nature of his office or violates any statute or lawfully adopted rule or regulation relating to his office.[71]

Official misconduct in the first degree is a Class A misdemeanor and is punishable with imprisonment not to exceed 12 months and fines of $500. Official misconduct in the second degree is a Class B misdemeanor and carries a potential punishment of up to 90 days imprisonment and fines of $250.[71]

The Kentucky Attorney General may appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether she violated the state official misconduct statute when her office refused to issue a license to a Rowan County gay couple.[72] "We're reviewing that matter," said Leland Hulbert, a spokesperson for the Kentucky Attorney General's office. "Whether or not our office assigns a special prosecutor about possible criminal charges, that is probably yet to be determined."[73] "I understand that passions are high on both sides of this issue, but we are a nation of laws, and no one can defy an order from a federal judge," Conway's office further noted.[74]

On September 9, 2015 Kentucky Attorney General Conway said he wouldn't appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Davis for now. “Judge Bunning and the federal court have control of this matter, and therefore a special state prosecutor is not necessary at this time.” [44]

Personal life

Davis has been married four times to three different men.[4] The first three marriages ended in divorce in 1994, 2006, and 2008. She is the mother of twins, who were born five months after her divorce from her first husband. Her third husband is the biological father of the twins, who were adopted by her second husband, Joe, who is also her fourth and current husband.[28]

Joe supports her stance against same-sex marriage.[27] One of Davis's twin sons, Nathan, works in her office as a deputy clerk and has taken the same position of denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples.[75]

In 2011 she experienced a "religious awakening", following her mother-in-law's "dying wish" that she attend church.[76] Since then Davis is described as an "Apostolic Christian"[8] who worships three times a week[77] at the Solid Rock Apostolic Church near Morehead.[76] It is a congregation in the Apostolic Church, a Pentecostal Christian denomination.[78][79] Following her conversion, she let her hair grow long, stopped wearing makeup and jewelry, and began wearing skirts and dresses that fell below the knee. This was in accordance with the standards of her church regarding modesty and dress for women.[2] Davis has held Bible study for inmates of the Rowan County jail.[76]

Election history

Rowan County, Kentucky County Clerk general election, 2014[80]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Kim Davis 3,909 53.2%
Republican John C. Cox 3,444 46.8%
Rowan County, Kentucky County Clerk Democratic primary, 2014[81]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Kim Davis 1,817 46.2%
Democratic Elwood Caudill, Jr. 1,794 45.6%
Democratic Charlotte Combess 322 8.2%

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