Mike Huckabee Backs Kim Davis on Same-Sex Marriage as She Returns to Work

Making a second effort to win the Republican presidential nomination, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., continues to support Kim Davis, the clerk in Rowan County who was jailed for refusing to comply with a federal court order and issue same-sex marriage licenses. 

Huckabee has been a vocal supporter of Davis and that continued on Monday as she announced she would not personally issues licenses for same-sex marriage but won’t stand in the way of her deputies if they do. 

"Kim Davis is staying true to her convictions while allowing the overreaching judge in Kentucky to force her office to follow his directions to ignore the Kentucky Constitution and statutes to accommodate nothing less than the judicial tyranny of the Supreme Court,” Huckabee said on Monday.  “The only thing more shocking than an unelected judge ordering an elected official to jail is that most of the chattering class fail to realize that our Constitution is being shredded by ignoring the separation of powers, the equality of the branches, and the checks and balances that would prevent unelected lawyers from ruling the entire nation."