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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    10 months ago

    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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      10 months ago

      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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      10 months ago

      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.