"WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The justices turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the high court's 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. Davis had been trying to get the court to overturn a lower-court order for her to pay $360,000 in damages and attorney's fees to a couple denied a marriage license."
"Her lawyers repeatedly invoked the words of Justice Clarence Thomas, who alone among the nine justices has called for erasing the same-sex marriage ruling. Thomas was among four dissenting justices in 2015. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito are the other dissenters who are on the court today. Roberts has been silent on the subject since he wrote a dissenting opinion in the case. Alito has continued to criticize the decision, but he said recently he was not advocating that it be overturned."
The Supreme Court rejected a bid to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges and turned away Kim Davis's appeal seeking to avoid a lower-court order to pay $360,000 in damages. Her lawyers cited Justice Clarence Thomas's call to erase the same-sex marriage ruling. Chief Justice John Roberts has been largely silent, while Justice Samuel Alito criticized the decision but said he does not seek its reversal. Amy Coney Barrett said the court sometimes should correct mistakes but noted reliance interests in same-sex marriages. Davis refused to issue licenses on religious grounds, defied orders, was jailed for contempt in September 2015, and was released after staff issued licenses.
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