Did Kim Davis have to go to jail? Did the judge have other options?
The Volokh Conspiracy 2015-09-08
Summary:
Kim Davis has been released from jail. As Eugene noted, now that her deputies are issuing marriage licenses to eligible couples, the federal judge concluded that there was no longer any basis for holding her in contempt of court. Could the spectacle of sending a county clerk to jail have been avoided? On the one […]