TYT: Kim Davis Back At Work, Still Not Doing Her Job

[WhoIsNumberNone]

Kim Davis has not only been released from jail, she is now working again as the clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky. She continues to be defiant and she continues to refuse same sex couples marriage licenses. She has said that she will not stand in the way of her staff should they choose to issue the licenses.

Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss. Should Kim Davies be aloud to back at work even though she’s still refusing to do her job? Let us know what you think in the comments.

Read more here: http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/14/politics/kim-davis-same-sex-marriage-kentucky/index.html

Kim Davis, America's highest-profile county clerk, returned to work Monday vowing to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

But that didn't stop Carmen and Shannon Wampler-Collins from successfully walking out of the Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk's office with a marriage license in hand.

Monday was Davis' first day back in her office after spending five days in jail for defying a court order and refusing to give licenses to same-sex couples.

[niyad]

1. no, kimmy returned to her office. she did NOT "return to work", since she hasn't actually

WORKED, done her job, in quite a while now.

I wonder if the taxpayers of rowan county can demand their money back on her unearned 80k salary?? hers, her son's and any of the other clerks refusing to do their jobs.

[maddiemom]

2. Does she have TAPE on her glasses?

At $80,000 a year, has no intact pair?

[mentalslavery]

4. You gotta love TYT, he just loses it

when it comes to the part about speaking in tongues. He's just feed up with the wingers and his frustration I feel so much and it just makes me laugh to see him lose it. I feel the same way man....total fucking crazies

[Old Crow]

9. That was, indeed, hilarious.

Cenk: "'Bleagh-bleagh-bleagh-bleagh-bleagh!' You're a f*cking lunatic!"

I was amazed that Ana didn't lose it.

[Old Crow]

5. No, it's not tape.

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It's some kind of decorative inlay on the temple pieces. The left and the right side match, if you look carefully.

[zebonaut]

3. Fire her; and she can join a christian religious convent

[Old Crow]

7. Believe it or not, she can't be fired.

She's an elected official. Trust me, I'd love for her to be fired if it were possible. There absolutely must be some way to remove her from the position--vote of no confidence, dereliction of duty, something--and I hope they find it and act on it.

[PJMcK]

13. Impeachment

As others have noted, she's an elected official and the only way to remove her from office would be by impeachment and conviction by the Kentucky Legislature. Currently, that body is in recess until January so the governor would have to call for a special session in order to enact impeachment proceedings. Governor Beshear has already said he won't make that call and, in fact, the Legislature is fairly conservative and might not vote to impeach Ms. Davis anyway.

If she resigns, the story just goes away but I don't think that will happen. In the video, she questions the validity of the licenses issued by her deputies and I think that is the next step in her (and her lawyers) bigoted attack on equal rights. As Ana Kasparian notes, the irony of Ms. Davis' hypocrisy is completely lost on Ms. Davis.

[markpkessinger]

15. And in conservative Kentucky . . .

. . . I wouldn't exactly hold my breath waiting for impeachment.

[Old Crow]

6. You know what?

My patience with this woman has expired. Jail her. Not for a few days. Jail her for at least three months and eliminate her position as a "cost-saving" measure.

[valerief]

8. Where's hubby Amos McCoy?

[silenttigersong]

10. Shes holding out for a movie deal

I hope she is banking her money as the law suits could roll in.

[Turbineguy]

11. Well at least she keeps lots

of policemen from doing their jobs, so that's something positive (in the what's up is down world).

[Enthusiast]

12. I'm with Cenk and Ana.

[maddiemom]

14. Speaking in tongues?

I wanna see her handle snakes! And wow, she does look EXACTLY like Dick Cheney with long hair. You can see it in any still picture.

[markpkessinger]

16. The way she goes on and on about her "authority" and her "authorization" tells me . . .

. . . she fundamentally misunderstands what the function of county clerk is. When she signs a marriage license as County Clerk, she isn't "authorizing" anything. She is certifying that the two persons named in the license are eligible to marry one another under existing law. It is an official certification that the two persons named meet the legal requirements to get married. She isn't "approving" or "authorizing" the marriage that may -- or may not -- take place under that license (which is why the entire claim of "religious conscience" is such a load of shit in this case). In this country, if two people wish to get married, they are entitled to do so, provided they meet the legal requirements under existing law. They don't need a County Clerk's "authorization" to be entitled to get married; the clerk who signs the license merely attests, on behalf of the state, that the couple are indeed eligible to get married under existing law. It is certifying an objective, empirical fact.

The fact that she believes she wields some legal authority as a County Clerk is really rather alarming, and in itself should be reason enough to impeach the woman!