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Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky who was found liable by a jury for failing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples following the Obergefell ruling as she claimed this violated her religion, has appealed her case to the federal appellate courts, urging for Obergefell to be overturned using the same reasoning the majority used in Dobbs ...
But even if Obergefell were overturned, the bipartisan-backed Respect for Marriage Act requires the federal government to respect valid marriage licenses of same-sex couples. Voiding marriage ...
Representative Jeremy Moss said, "Regardless of what happens with Obergefell in the future – which obviously, there is a threat it could be overturned – right now, we have unconstitutional language in our Constitution. […] We should be working now, as we should have been working, to repeal the language in our constitution that bans ...
The Obergefell decision in June 2015 invalidated these state constitutional amendments insofar as they prevented same-sex couples from marrying, even though the actual text of these amendments remain written into the state constitutions. Thirty-one U.S. state constitutional amendments banning legal recognition of same-sex unions have been adopted.
It has been suggested that the Supreme Court's move to overturn Roe v.Wade paves a path to go after same-sex marriages next, which far-right Justice Clarence Thomas seemingly alluded to in a ...
Jim Obergefell was the lead plaintiff on the landmark case that gave same-sex couples the right to get married in 2015 after the death of husband John Arthur. ... Hodges should also be overturned ...
This article summarizes the same-sex marriage laws of states in the United States. Via the case Obergefell v.Hodges on June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States legalized same-sex marriage in a decision that applies nationwide, with the exception of American Samoa and sovereign tribal nations.
In Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), the Court held that same-sex marriage was a fundamental right protected by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause . The ruling required all states to perform and recognize the marriages of same-sex couples, leaving Section 2 of DOMA as superseded and unenforceable.