Supreme Court asked to hear case that could upend same-sex marriage and absolve Kentucky clerk who refused to issue a license

A former county clerk in Kentucky who was briefly jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses on religious grounds is asking the Supreme Court to consider her appeal, arguing in part that the high court’s landmark 2015 decision recognizing gay marriage rights was wrongly decided.

Kim Davis, who served as Rowan County Clerk until 2018, appealed to the Supreme Court late last month, challenging lower federal court rulings that meant she was on the hook for $100,000 in damages and $260,000 in attorneys fees in a legal battle with one of the couples whose marriage she declined to certify.