Unilateral rights nullifier to pay where it counts
[Sad trombone]:
David Ermold and David Moore were each awarded $50,000 Wednesday after winning a lawsuit against a former county clerk who refused to give them a marriage license.
Former country clerk Kim Davis denied a marriage license to the same-sex couple in 2015 and was briefly jailed. Eight years later in a Kentucky courtroom, a jury awarded the couple thousands of dollars.
In 2022, District Judge David Bunning ruled that Davis had violated the men’s constitutional rights. He said that Davis “cannot use her own constitutional rights as a shield to violate the constitutional rights of others while performing her duties as an elected official,” according to the AP.
Admittedly, this will be less funny when the Alito opinion overruling Obergefell has a five page rant about it, but I’m still going to enjoy it for now.