Contempt of court.
Whether or not she was morally right or wrong in refusing to issue marriage licenses, once she received a court order to desist, she (or the county) should have secured legal representation to fight the contempt charge.
By continuing to show up for work and refusing to do her job, she stuck her thumb in the eye of the court, and as a result of the contempt charge, got her ass stuck in jail.
I thought that’s what the contempt hearing was? No? She didn’t fight the charge?
She should have and she should have challenged the word “lawful” as pertains to judge’s duty to enforce certain laws.
She did do her job. What you have is judgical activism both SCOTUS and the local fed court. He was telling her to do her job by following laws that don’t exist in Kentucky.
He threw here in jail for several days....and it backfired big time.