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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.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's almost like the "justice" system was organized like that on purpose because a lot of the people who helped write the constitution didn't want the aristocracy to go anywhere, or to have to face consequences, so they wrote a shitty constitution that still generally protected everyone in a position of power from ever having to answer to "a fucking plebeian."

Gee, I wonder why the justice system is boiled down to "Whoever has the most money can just fucking wait out the other guy to win."

[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Too much of our judicial system globally is based on Roman law. Our concept of private property is derived from their excuse for maintaining slavery.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Yeah the People's History is entertaining but might want to move on to real history at some point, but hey I get the urge. I enjoyed the movie Braveheart which is much more accurate.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Your comment comes off as from someone who hasn't read the US Constitution before.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

And yours comes off as being smug about having read it, in spite of not having understood key aspects of it.

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