The Supreme Court rejected a long-shot bid Monday by Kim Davis , the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue a marriage license to a gay couple, to get the justices to reconsider the court’s 2015 ruling legalizing same-sex unions nationwide.

Davis, 59, petitioned the justices in July to review a lower court’s 2022 finding that she violated David Ermold and David Moore’s constitutional right to marry.

Four justices would have had to support hearing the case for oral arguments to be scheduled.

Monday’s order did not indicate whether any of the nine justices pushed to hear Davis’ appeal; however, Justice Clarence Thomas has suggested that the ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges be given a second look.

“In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process

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