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 $360,000 in damages and attorney’s fees to a couple denied a marriage license.
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Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 313d
This isn't necessarily a rebuke of her position on gay marriage...only that they are letting the settlement decision against her, stand. She did violate their rights according to the law, so she must pay the damages.
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 313d
.. for now. It probably just wasn't the 'right' case to let them weasel their way around to doing it.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 313d
Told ya they'd drop it with no comment. It's a weak case to begin with and not one they want to set precedent upon.
Wren@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 313d
It was weak, but the fact it gained so much support is troubling. There are well funded interest groups who look for worthy contenders to puppet against the supreme court for these kinds of challenges.
Her lawyers are part of it: https://lc.org/
vigiv83673@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 313d
Wren@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 313d
Well said. Celebrate small victories, but don't get complacent.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 312d
"deleted by moderator" yet nothing in ModLog? I am confusion.
Wren@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 312d
It was an admin purge, not us. Looks like it was a suspected LLM bot with a whole bunch of long comments written within minutes.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 312d
You'd think the deletion message wouldn't pin the blame on you, then. Odd. But then, I've not been a programmer, admin, etc. in an exceedingly long time.
Wren@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 312d
I don't feel blamed. Anyone can see the reason and deleted messages in the instance modlog.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 312d
Ahh, TY. Didn't know there was such a thing.