"Davis and her anti-gay lawyers at the Liberty Counsel were contesting a money damages award of $100,000 plus $260,000 in legal fees that Davis was ordered to pay to two men she refused to marry back in the day. "Back in the day" is a journalistic shortcut for, "I think it must have been 2015 but I don't feel like checking.""
"In addition to the damages case, Davis tacked a side issue onto her Supreme Court petition, asking the Court, while they were at it, to overturn marriage equality along with the legal concept of substantive due process that has underpinned a constitutional right to privacy for half a century. Dear Readers, there was no chance in hell that the Court was going to take that case. Yes, the Court considered it during their weekly conference, but they dispensed with it at once."
The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis and left in place a damages award totaling $100,000 plus $260,000 in legal fees. Davis sought to have the Court overturn marriage equality and the doctrine of substantive due process that underpins constitutional privacy and related fundamental rights. The Court swiftly denied the petition without tabling it and produced no dissents. Justice Alito indicated that Dobbs was not intended to undermine marriage equality. Justice Thomas urged reconsideration of substantive due process, arguing that precedents relying on it warrant review.
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