For the primary time since 2015, the US Supreme Courtroom has been requested to overturn a landmark ruling on same-sex marriage.
The Supreme Courtroom will take up the case this Fall.
Kim Davis, the Christian Kentucky clerk who went to jail for refusing to difficulty a same-sex marriage license in 2015, filed the petition and argued the excessive courtroom’s resolution in Obergefell v Hodges was “egregiously mistaken.”
ABC Information reported:
Ten years after the Supreme Courtroom prolonged marriage rights to same-sex {couples} nationwide, the justices this fall will contemplate for the primary time whether or not to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn that call.
Kim Davis, the previous Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for six days in 2015 after refusing to difficulty marriage licenses to a homosexual couple on non secular grounds, is interesting a $100,000 jury verdict for emotional damages plus $260,000 for attorneys charges.
In a petition for writ of certiorari filed final month, Davis argues First Modification safety without cost train of faith immunizes her from private legal responsibility for the denial of marriage licenses.
Extra essentially, she claims the excessive courtroom’s resolution in Obergefell v Hodges — extending marriage rights for same-sex {couples} underneath the 14th Modification’s due course of protections — was “egregiously mistaken.”
