Supreme Court asked to overturn same-sex marriage

The Supreme Court could hear a case in the Fall that might see it overturn the nationwide right to same-sex marriage after former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis asked the top bench to grant a writ of certiorari in her own case.

Davis refused to issue a marriage license to a pair of men following the Obergefell v. Hodges case, citing her religious beliefs. She spent six days in prison and a jury determined she should pay $100,000 for emotional damages, ABC News reported. 

Her petition to the court explicitly condemned the 5-4 decision as "egregiously wrong" and demanded that the court reverse the decision. The court is not bound to hear Davis's case, though doing so could result in some form of reversal. 

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas previously expressed interest in revisiting the opinion, though lawmakers have since approved the "Respect for Marriage Act", which would require states to recognize valid marriages from other states.

Notably, the Obergefell decision has led to a decade of legal conflict over where the line between free speech, religious freedom, and the right to same-sex marriage falls. Such was the matter at hand in the Masterpiece Cake Shop case in which the owner refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage.

The court punted on answering that question and remanded the case to the lower court to instead address concerns of religious bias in the prosecution.

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.