Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court connected Monday rejected a telephone to overturn its landmark determination that legalized same-sex matrimony nationwide.

The justices turned distant an entreaty from Kim Davis, the erstwhile Kentucky tribunal clerk who refused to contented matrimony licenses to same-sex couples aft the precocious court's 2015 ruling successful Obergefell v. Hodges.

Davis had been trying to get the tribunal to overturn a lower-court bid for her to wage $360,000 successful damages and attorney's fees to a mates denied a matrimony license.

Her lawyers repeatedly invoked the words of Justice Clarence Thomas, who unsocial among the 9 justices has called for erasing the same-sex matrimony ruling.

Thomas was among 4 dissenting justices successful 2015. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito are the different dissenters who are connected the tribunal today.

Roberts has been soundless connected the taxable since helium wrote a dissenting sentiment successful the case. Alito has continued to knock the decision, but helium said precocious helium was not advocating that it beryllium overturned.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was not connected the tribunal successful 2015, has said that determination are times erstwhile the tribunal should close mistakes and overturn decisions, arsenic it did successful the 2022 lawsuit that ended a law close to abortion.

But Barrett has suggested precocious that same-sex matrimony mightiness beryllium successful a antithetic class than termination due to the fact that radical person relied connected the determination erstwhile they joined and had children.

Davis drew nationalist attraction to eastbound Kentucky's Rowan County erstwhile she turned distant same-sex couples, saying her religion prevented her from complying with the precocious tribunal ruling. She defied tribunal orders to contented the licenses until a national justice jailed her for contempt of tribunal successful September 2015.

She was released aft her unit issued the licenses connected her behalf but removed her sanction from the form. The Kentucky legislature aboriginal enacted a instrumentality removing the names of each region clerks from authorities matrimony licenses.

Davis mislaid a reelection bid successful 2018.