Former Kentucky County Clerk Asks the Justices to Scrap Nationwide Marriage Rights

It’s been ten years, and former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis has formally asked the Supreme Court to dismantle federal protections for same-sex marriages and, as predicted, overturn the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

Davis, jailed for six days in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to David Ermold and David Moore and other couples, is appealing a jury’s order that she pay $100,000 in emotional damages plus $260,000 in attorneys’ fees. She later lost her bid for reelection as Rowan County Clerk.

In a petition filed last month, she claims the First Amendment’s free exercise of religion protects her from personal liability and argues the court’s 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges wa

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