Former county clerk had disputed lawyers’ fees for Kentucky couple who won $100,000 damages

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.

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    29·
    11 months ago

    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.”

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      5·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • loutr
        4·
        11 months ago

        I don’t think they’d care. In France the right fundraised a fucking million euros for a cop who shot a kid during a traffic stop, and they bragged about it.

      • Imgonnatrythis
        2·
        11 months ago

        Being a huge asshole has become completely acceptable though unfortunately.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      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.