🚀 Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour – Politics 📖
📂 Category: Clarence Thomas,Kim Davis,same-sex marriage,Supreme Court
💡 Here’s what you’ll learn:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
The justices rejected an appeal by Kim Davis, a former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.
Read more: What do you know about the Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage 10 years ago?
Davis was trying to persuade the court to overturn a lower court’s order to pay $360,000 in damages and attorney’s fees to a couple who were denied a marriage license.
Her lawyers repeatedly cited the words of Justice Clarence Thomas, who alone among the nine justices called for the same-sex marriage ruling to be overturned.
Thomas was among four justices to dissent in 2015. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito are the other dissenters on the court today.
Read more: Southern Baptist delegates are calling for the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage to be overturned
Roberts has been silent on the matter since writing a dissenting opinion in the case. Alito has continued to criticize the decision, but recently said he was not calling for it to be overturned.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was not on the court in 2015, said there are times when the court must correct errors and overturn decisions, as it did in a 2022 case that ended the constitutional right to abortion.
But Barrett recently pointed out that gay marriage may be in a different category than abortion because people rely on the decision when they get married and have children.
He watches: Lawmakers passed landmark legislation aimed at protecting same-sex marriage
Davis brought national attention to Rowan County in eastern Kentucky when it rejected same-sex couples, saying her faith prevented her from complying with the Supreme Court ruling. She defied court orders to issue licenses until a federal judge imprisoned her for contempt of court in September 2015.
She was released after her staff issued the licenses on her behalf but removed her name from the form. The Kentucky legislature later enacted a law removing the names of all county clerks from state marriage licenses.
Davis lost his re-election bid in 2018. Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision allowing same-sex marriage nationwide
A free press is the cornerstone of a healthy democracy.
Support trustworthy journalism and civil dialogue.
💬 What do you think?
#️⃣ #Supreme #Court #rejects #call #overturn #decadeold #samesex #marriage #ruling
