Kim Davis, the Ketucky Clerk who has made headlines for her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, has once again lost a bid to stop issuing marriage licenses.
Two weeks after she was found in contempt of court and released from prison under the condition that she not interfere with the her office's attempts at handing out any licenses, Davis has been found, once again, trying to impede office procedures, according to the Daily Intelligencer.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning rejected a request from Davis's legal team to throw out his previous order requiring her office to issue marriage licenses to all eligible couples, not just the four who sued her, while her case is pending, according to North Jersey.
"It would essentially allow her to reinstate her 'no marriage licenses' policy during the pendency of the appeal and likely violate the constitutional right of eligible couples," Bunning wrote when making his decision.
Mat Staver, Davis's attorney, described the latest move as "a formality," reported the New York Times. Because Davis' lawyers hadn't gone through Judge Bunning first, The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rejected the request on a technicality. Now they plan to take their motion back to the appeals court.
While Davis was in jail, her deputies issued modified licenses without her name, job title, and county. With the validity of those licenses being questioned by both sides, the ACLU has requested that Bunning order Davis to re-issue those licenses with the required information, and penalize her again if she refuses to do so.
That request is still pending.
