Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn same-sex marriage ruling

US Supreme Court rejects challenge to same-sex marriage

A former official who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its landmark ruling that guaranteed the right to same-sex marriage. However, the Supreme Court rejected the bid.

Supreme Court rejects call to overturn same-sex marriage legalization

WASHINGTON — 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 $360,00…

Michigan Attorney General praises Supreme Court decision but warns same-sex marriage still at risk

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel at a Lansing Pride Press Event discussing GOP Threats to LGBTQ+ Michiganders. June 5, 2024. Photo by Jon King. On Monday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order declining to take up a case seeking to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 case that granted same-sex couples the right to marry nationwide.  The case, brought by former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, argued that Davis’s First Amendment…

Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn same-sex marriage decision

The justices turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who in 2015 refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

US Supreme Court rejects appeal seeking to overturn same-sex marriage decision

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.

Florida LGBTQ leaders welcome Supreme Court decision preserving marriage equality

LGBTQ advocates and policymakers are cheering a decision by the Supreme Court not to reconsider legalizing marriage equality. That came months after the 10-year anniversary of the Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states. A former Kentucky County Clerk of Court Kim Davis, who infamously refused to issue certificates afterward, asked the Supreme Court to reconsider the issue. But the court has now formally d…