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The Kentucky legislature later enacted a law removing the names of all county clerks from state marriage licenses.

Davis lost a reelection bid in 2018. /ends

saying her faith prevented her from complying with the high court ruling. She defied court orders to issue the licenses until a federal judge jailed her for contempt of court in September 2015. She was released after her staff issued the licenses on her behalf but removed her name from the form. /6

“The Supreme Court made clear today that refusing to respect the constitutional rights of others does not come without consequences,” Robinson said in a statement.

Davis drew national attention to eastern Kentucky’s Rowan County when she turned away same-sex couples

But Barrett has suggested recently that same-sex marriage might be in a different category than abortion because people have relied on the decision when they married and had children.
Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson praised the justices’ decision not to intervene. /6

, but said recently he was not advocating that it be overturned. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was not on the court in 2015, has said that there are times when the court should correct mistakes and overturn decisions, as it did in the 2022 case that ended a constitutional right to abortion. /5

Thomas was among four dissenting justices in 2015. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito are the other dissenters who were on the court today.

Roberts has been silent on the subject since he wrote a dissenting opinion in the case. Alito has continued to criticize the decision

Davis had been trying to get the court to overturn a lower-court order for her to pay $360,000 in damages & attorney’s fees to a couple denied a marriage license. Her lawyers invoked the words of Justice Thomas who alone among the nine justices has called for erasing the same-sex marriage ruling.

It's actually something of a benefit that Trump and his ilk can't help claiming credit, and underlining what this is really about.

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@eddavey.libdems.org.uk leader of the @libdems.org.uk who has himself taken repeated shots at the BBC and complained that it gives too much airtime to right-wing parties — called for the outfit to “turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and not give in to the likes of Nigel Farage who want to destroy it.”

One government official, told POLITICO London Playbook that Nandy’s “intention” is still to start the process by the end of this year, and said it won’t be tied to whether there is a new director general in post. Nandy has not ruled out scrapping the license fee from 2028. /10