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Kim Davis lawyers file appeal
The legal team for jailed Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis filed a notice of appeal against her contempt charges.
‘The contempt order itself was unlawful,’ Roger Gannam, a lawyer for Davis, said to Reuters.
According to the news organization Gannam is an attorney with Liberty Counsel, a Christian religious advocacy organization backing her legal challenge.
The appeal was filed today, 6 September, in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
Last month, District Judge David Bunning ordered Davis to issue marriage certificates to LGBTI applicants. She appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court. The high court denied her emergency request to not issue marriage licenses to any couples – gay or straight – as she fought in the lower court.
Despite losing, she continued to defy Bunning’s order and he found her in contempt. The 49-year-old Democrat been in jail since Thursday.
This Tuesday, 8 September, there will be a ‘#ImWithKim Liberty Rally’ held in front of the jail Davis is in, the Carter County Detention Center in Grayson, Kentucky.
The event is sponsored by GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee and a number of anti-LGBTI equality groups, including including the Family Research Council, National Organization for Marriage, and Concerned Women for America.
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James Withers
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