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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to revisit its 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage, turning away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on religious grounds. The justices declined to hear Davis’s case, effectively upholding a lower-court ruling that …

Ten years after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, the justices will soon decide whether to hear a case explicitly seeking to reverse that precedent. Kim Davis, the former Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk who was jailed for six days in 2015 after defying court orders to issue marriage …