Supreme Court Rejects Kim Davis’ Same-Sex Marriage Appeal
The county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples filed a long-shot petition with the justices
The Supreme Court declined to review Kim Davis’s petition asking the justices to overturn the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The expected denial came Monday via the court’s routine order list, which announces the latest actions on pending appeals.
Four justices are needed to grant a review. No justice dissented from the denial.
Davis is the former county clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, who made headlines a decade ago for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on religious grounds following the Obergefell decision.
Her unsuccessful petition sought to overturn a ruling by the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which affirmed her loss in a civil case filed by David Moore and David Ermold, whom she had refused to issue a marriage license. Successfully opposing the Supreme Court review, Moore and Ermold wrote that Obergefell “was correctly decided, and there is no need to revisit it.”
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