Tag Archives: Obergefell v. Hodges

Ten years after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, the justices will soon decide whether to hear a case explicitly seeking to reverse that precedent. Kim Davis, the former Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk who was jailed for six days in 2015 after defying court orders to issue marriage …

Lawmakers in at least nine states have introduced measures aimed at undermining same-sex couples’ right to marry, with some explicitly calling for the Supreme Court to overturn its landmark 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. One of the latest efforts comes from Michigan, where State Rep. Josh Schriver (R) introduced …

Trial attorneys in the U.S. frequently stop potential jurors from serving on cases based on their stated biases, but U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito indicated on Tuesday that he was disturbed by a case out of Missouri in which three people were eliminated from a jury after expressing homophobic …