Andrew Wolfson

U.S. District Judge David Bunning, who jailed Kim Davis for contempt of court Thursday, ordered her freed, saying he was satisfied her deputies have complied with his order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex and straight couples.

Lawyers for a county court clerk who refuses to issue marriage licenses in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling that allows same-sex couples to wed filed an emergency motion Wednesday to block an order from the Kentucky governor.