The Supreme Court on Monday denied a bid from former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis to appeal her $100,000 damages suit and get the justices to revisit the landmark 2015 decision in Obergefell v Hodges. The court did not explain its decision.

More than a decade after Obergefell v. Hodges made marriage equality the law of the land, the case’s namesake is celebrating another victory — this time, the U.S. Supreme Court’s quiet refusal to reop...