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The county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples had filed a long-shot petition to the justices.
Hallelujah!!!
Supreme Court denies review of Kim Davis’ petition that sought to overturn Obergefell www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
— Stephen Trumbull (@smtrumbull.bsky.social) 2025-11-10T14:45:07.808Z
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/supreme-court-kim-davis-petition-obergefell-same-sex-marriage-rcna242618
The Supreme Court declined to review Kim Davis’ petition asking the justices to overturn the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, which recognized same-sex marriage rights. The expected denial came on Monday via the court’s routine order list announcing the latest action on pending appeals.
It would have taken four justices to grant to review. No justices noted any dissent from the denial.
Davis is the former Kentucky county clerk who made headlines a decade ago for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on religious grounds in the wake of the Obergefell decision.
Her failed petition sought to upend a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, which affirmed her loss in a civil case brought by David Moore and David Ermold, whose marriage license she refused. Successfully opposing Supreme Court review, Moore and Ermold wrote that Obergefell “was correctly decided, and there is no need to revisit it.”
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