The Supreme Court rejected a call to overturn its decision to legalize same-sex marriage across the country.

SCOTUS decision related to previous ruling

Dig deeper:

The high court turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, a former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the SCOTUS ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015.

According to the Associated Press, Davis attempted to get the Supreme Court to overturn a lower-court order for her to pay $360,000 in damages and lawyer's fees to a couple denied a marriage license.

RELATED: Republican lawmakers push to overturn Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling

Davis' attorneys invoked the words of Justice Clarence Thomas, who has called for erasing the same-sex marriage ruling.

The AP reported tha

See Full Page