"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."
"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."
"But Barrett has suggested recently that same-sex marriage might be in a different category than abortion because people have relied on the decision when they married and had children. Davis drew national attention to eastern Kentucky's Rowan County when she turned away same-sex couples, saying her faith prevented her from complying with the high court ruling. She defied court orders to issue the licenses until a federal judge jailed her for contempt of court in September 2015."
The Supreme Court rejected Kim Davis's appeal seeking to overturn a lower-court order requiring her to pay $360,000 in damages and attorney's fees to a couple denied a marriage license. Davis refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision and defied court orders, resulting in a brief jail stay for contempt in September 2015. Justice Thomas was among four dissenters in 2015; Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito also dissented. Justice Barrett has noted that same-sex marriage may raise reliance interests because couples married and had children. Kentucky later removed clerk names from marriage licenses.
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