Kate Sosin

LGBTQ+ reporter

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The Supreme Court will not hear a case to overturn marriage equality, it announced on Monday. The justices have rejected a petition from Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue licenses in the state a decade ago.

Davis’ petition has been closely watched, but was seen as a long shot.

For the past decade, Davis has been battling against giving marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She was jailed for six days and fined $100,000 plus attorney’s fees for refusing to do so.

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It is the second time Davis petitioned the court to hear her case. She made similar arguments five years ago, and the court also declined to take up the case then.

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