Ten years after the landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court is being formally asked to overturn that ruling.
Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who became a flashpoint in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on religious grounds—and who was briefly jailed for defying a court order—is leading the push. In a new petition, her legal team argues that the earlier ruling was “egregiously wrong” and violates religious freedom under the First Amendment.
This marks the first direct challenge to the decision since it was issued in 2015. Legal experts caution that public support for marriage equality has grown significantly in recent years, but they acknowledge that ideological shifts on the Supreme Court could make this a high-stakes battle ahead.
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