"The supreme court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The justices, without comment, 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."
"Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was not on the court in 2015, has said that there are times when the court should correct mistakes and overturn decisions, as it did in the 2022 case that ended a constitutional right to abortion. 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."
The Supreme Court refused to overturn the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision and turned away Kim Davis's appeal without comment. Davis had refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and sought relief from a lower-court order requiring her to pay $360,000 in damages and attorney's fees. Lawyers cited Justice Clarence Thomas, who has urged erasing the same-sex marriage ruling; Thomas was among four 2015 dissenters along with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito. Barrett has said courts sometimes should correct mistakes but noted reliance interests in same-sex marriages. The Human Rights Campaign praised the decision. Davis previously defied orders and was jailed for contempt in 2015.
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