Kim Davis’s lawyers just filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, challenging U.S. District Judge David Bunning’s holding Davis in contempt of court, and ordering her taken into immediate federal custody by federal marshals. This is now the fourth day that she is spending behind bars for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, citing her Christian belief that marriage is between a man and woman. As Breitbart News has previously reported, Davis is on solid legal ground in claiming that the First Amendment protects her from having to issue marriage licenses as the elected county clerk, but is on much shakier legal ground by also claiming the governmental power to order her deputy clerks—five of whom do not share her religious-faith objection—from issuing those licenses in her absence. The power to order deputy clerks to do or not do something belongs