The Progressive | H Good
In the decade since Obergefell, court cases across the country have tried to overturn the right to same-sex marriage. Last fall, a case attempted to penetrate the Supreme Court, stoking panic that the Obergefell domino could indeed topple. In Davis v. Ermold, petitioner Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky who had refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2015, asked the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell, claiming that it had “no basis in the Constitution.” She had been locked in a legal battle for almost a decade after being sued and jailed for refusing to issue the licenses, continually appealing the original case against her to request that the Court reconsider Obergefell.