Ten years after the U.S. Supreme Court extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices will consider this fall whether to take up a case explicitly asking them to overturn that landmark ruling.
According to ABC News, former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, jailed in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licenses to a gay couple on religious grounds, is appealing a $100,000 jury award for emotional damages and $260,000 in attorneys’ fees. In her petition, Davis argues her actions were protected by the First Amendment’s free exercise clause and that Obergefell v. Hodges — the 2015 decision recognizing same-sex marriage — was “egregiously wrong.”
The case marks the first formal request since 2015 for the high court to overturn Obergefell. Lower courts have rejected Davis