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Kim Davis Back at Work in Rowan County Clerk's Office

Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis says she won’t interfere in the issuance of marriage licenses by her deputy clerks, but she claims the licenses are invalid.

"Any unauthorized license that they issue will not have my name, my title or my authority on it. Instead, the license will state that they are issued pursuant to a federal court order," Davis said in a news conference Monday morning.

Davis stopped granting marriage licenses after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in June.

Last week her deputy clerks began granting the forms while Davis was in jail for defying a court order to issue them.

As long as licenses are being issued by the office, it appears that the court will be satisfied.

Ryland Barton is the Managing Editor for Collaboratives. He's covered politics and state government for NPR member stations KWBU in Waco and KUT in Austin. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Texas. He grew up in Lexington.

Email Ryland at rbarton@lpm.org.
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