Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn E. Jean Carroll verdict
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Kim Davis asked the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges appealing damages she owed a gay couple after she denied them a marriage license.
The challenge to the court's 2015 ruling came from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex licenses after the court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
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Supreme Court rejects appeal from county clerk who sought to overturn same-sex marriage decision
The Supreme Court rejected an effort by a former Kentucky county clerk to revisit its 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which grants same-sex couples the right to marry.
Sixteen states, including Oregon, accept mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. The Supreme Court will consider the legality of that practice.
The president said the assertions behind a judgment that he sexually abused and defamed the writer were “implausible” and “unsubstantiated.”
President Donald Trump appeals to Supreme Court to overturn the E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse and defamation verdict, claiming improper evidentiary rulings.
EARLY IN HIS second term, Donald Trump has profited from his previous appointments of Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. With few exceptions, they and their three conservative colleagues have removed obstacles to Mr Trump’s plans imposed by lower courts—letting him ban transgender soldiers from the armed forces,