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 who feared the conservative court might be ready to revisit the decade-old decision.
Instead, the court denied an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who now faces hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages and legal fees for refusing to issue marriage licenses after the court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges allowed same-sex couples to marry.
The court did not explain its reasoning to deny the appeal, which had received outsized attention – in part because the court’s 6-3 conservative majority three years ago overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion that 1973 decision established. Since then, fears about Obergefell being the precedent to fall have grown.
I’m abroad (most likely permanently) and I get the feeling I’m gonna have to fight to stay here on an expired passport. The silver lining is that the more they attack us the more of a case I have. My immigration lawyers are gonna love me.
Their play is that they don’t allow renewals with the “wrong” marker, but they also don’t allow gender marker changes so if you’re trans you’re fucked. The cruelty is the point. The recent SCROTUS ruling turns this from policy into law.