Overview
- The justices dismissed the petition without comment, choosing not to revisit Obergefell v. Hodges.
- A lower-court order requiring Davis to pay $360,000 in damages and attorneys' fees to a couple she denied a license remains enforceable.
- LGBTQ rights advocates, including Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson, praised the decision as confirming consequences for defying constitutional rights.
- Conservative justices have voiced different views on Obergefell, with Clarence Thomas urging its erasure, Samuel Alito criticizing the ruling without calling for reversal, and Amy Coney Barrett pointing to reliance interests.
- Davis rose to prominence in 2015 for refusing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, was jailed for contempt, and Kentucky later removed county clerks' names from state marriage licenses.