Overview
- The justices rejected, without explanation, former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis’s bid to revisit the constitutional right to same‑sex marriage.
- The denial leaves lower‑court judgments in place that order Davis to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to a couple whose marriage license she refused to issue.
- At least four votes are required to grant Supreme Court review, and that threshold was not met in this petition.
- The refusal comes after the 2022 abortion decision that rattled precedent watchers and after Justice Clarence Thomas called for reexamining Obergefell.
- More than 820,000 same‑sex couples are married in the United States, and LGBTQ advocates, including Human Rights Campaign’s Kelley Robinson, welcomed the outcome.