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.
Good news, but not a celebration parade yet. The court punted on Kim Davis and left Obergefell standing, which means marriages keep happening and people who refused to follow the law are still on the hook. That accountability matters.
Still, I’m pissed the court didn’t just come out and reinforce the precedent. Between Clarence Thomas openly saying Obergefell should go and Barrett hinting at “correcting mistakes,” the threat to rights is real. Turning down an appeal is not the same as a clear, principled defense of equality.
So yeah, breathe easier today, but don’t relax. Courts change, and rights that depend on fragile majorities can be chipped away. Keep voting, keep litigating, and don’t let this be the moment everyone stops paying attention.
Well said. Celebrate small victories, but don’t get complacent.
“deleted by moderator” yet nothing in ModLog? I am confusion.
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.
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.
I don’t feel blamed. Anyone can see the reason and deleted messages in the instance modlog.
Ahh, TY. Didn’t know there was such a thing.