Supreme Court preserves marriage equality

Marriage Ruling Relieves Gay Americans and Leaves Conservatives Pledging New Challenges

The Supreme Court chose not to revisit a case involving same-sex marriage. The number of married same-sex couples has doubled in the last 10 years.

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Anna O. Law

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Helpful review of past fed Indian law cases. "The Supreme Court, becoming known as a tribunal willing to overturn some of its major decisions, could only muster two votes on Monday to reconsider one of the most fiercely condemned rulings on the law governing America’s Indian tribes."

Lyle Denniston @lylden.bsky.social · 5h

One of the most reviled decisions by SCt on Indian law, the 1886 decision in US v. Kagama, withstands a challenge today. Only 2 JJ voted to hear it. SCt also refused to reconsider same-sex marriage precedent. Details at:
lyldenlawnews.com/2025/11/10/o...

November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM

ABC

U.S. Supreme Court rejects a case aimed at overturning gay marriage

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a case seeking to end same-sex marriage, established by a historic ruling in 2015. In a decision without oral argument, the justices chose not to review an appeal stemming from the case most central to challenging this right: Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to a same-sex couple on religious grounds. That happened in 2015, shortly after the Court's ruling, and drew wide attention over the debate about the balance between this right and religious freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment. The case involved Davis and the couple David Moore and David Ermold who sued her. The couple has long prevailed in the legal fight since then, but there were doubts whether the Supreme Court could overturn its own precedent and side with Davis and prioritize her religious beliefs. The doubts arose largely for two connected reasons: the Court's conservative tilt after Donald Trump's presidency, during which three justices were nominated and a 6-3 majority was formed; and especially the 2022 abortion ruling that dismantled earlier precedents—and allowed states to set their own rules. In that ruling, the Court's conservative cornerstone Clarence Thomas suggested that other precedents—such as Obergefell v. Hodges, the ruling establishing the right to same-sex marriage—should also be revisited. That possibility, at least for now, is set aside by the Supreme Court's decision on Monday to reject Davis's appeal, which sought to overturn the 2015 ruling.

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Lyle Denniston

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One of the most reviled decisions by SCt on Indian law, the 1886 decision in US v. Kagama, withstands a challenge today. Only 2 JJ voted to hear it. SCt also refused to reconsider same-sex marriage precedent. Details at:
lyldenlawnews.com/2025/11/10/o...

November 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM

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Timothy McBride

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Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to overturn same-sex marriage ruling www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to overturn same-sex marriage ruling

The court turned away an appeal filed by Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky who was sued after refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple.

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November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM

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Timothy McBride

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Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision

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November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM

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Ryan Thoreson

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The US Supreme Court has left marriage alone, but its decision to let Trump's discriminatory passport policy take effect is a devastating step backwards that jeopardizes trans and intersex people's human rights. www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

US Supreme Court Allows Discriminatory Passport Rule

The United States Supreme Court last week allowed the implementation of a discriminatory Trump administration policy requiring new passports to reflect an individual’s sex assigned at birth.

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November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM

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Ilya Somin

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Supreme Court rejects case seeking to overturn right to same-sex marriage. I was one of many observers who predicted this. Obergfell v. Hodges is highly unlikely to be reversed, and it was never going to happen in this dog of a case: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Casing Seeking to Overturn Obergefell

This result is unsurprising, and was predicted by most analysts, including myself.

reason.com

November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM

The Washington Post

Same-sex marriage isn’t going anywhere

The Supreme Court predictably rejects an opportunity to reconsider its 2015 decision.

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Laia Balcells

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This is so important.

ACLU @aclu.org · 14h

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.

Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM

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Timothy McBride

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Supreme Court rejects challenge to gay marriage decision www.axios.com/2025/11/10/s...

Supreme Court rejects challenge to gay marriage decision

It signals that, for now, same-sex marriage remains settled law.

www.axios.com

November 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM

Die Zeit

USA: Supreme Court declines to review same-sex marriage

Kim Davis refused to issue marriage certificates to same-sex couples and sought a ban. The Supreme Court denied the petition.

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Timothy McBride

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Supreme Court Declines to Reconsider Same-Sex Marriage Decision www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Supreme Court Declines to Reconsider Same-Sex Marriage Decision

The court said it wouldn’t take up an appeal seeking to overturn a 2015 ruling that gave same-sex couples the constitutional right to marry.

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November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM

El Pais

The U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear challenges to same-sex marriage

The high court refuses to consider the arguments of a former official who, for religious reasons, refused to process same-sex marriages.

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PCNiles

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No d’uh!

"Davis cannot use her own constitutional rights as a shield to violate the constitutional rights of others while performing her duties as an elected official,"…

US Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn same-sex marriage right www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

Now — Will SCOTUS stop Trump?

November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM

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Samantha Brennan

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Supreme Court declines to revisit landmark same-sex marriage precedent

Phew

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Supreme Court declines to revisit landmark same-sex marriage precedent | CNN Politics

The Supreme Court on Monday declined an opportunity to overturn its landmark precedent recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, tossing aside an appeal that had roiled LGBTQ advocates ...

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November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM

Le Figaro

United States: The Supreme Court refuses to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of same-sex marriage

A former Kentucky county clerk who refused to marry a same-sex couple asked the Court to overturn its 2015 ruling.

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Le Monde

The U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear a challenge to same-sex marriage

Unions between gay and lesbian people have been guaranteed since 2015 by the Supreme Court, an institution regularly called on to decide the country’s major social debates.

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