Overview

• Hillary Clinton forecast that the Supreme Court will return same-sex marriage to the states and urged unmarried couples to consider marrying, framing it as her prediction rather than a certainty.
• Former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis asked the Court on July 24 to overturn Obergefell and to vacate roughly $360,000 in damages and fees tied to her refusal to issue licenses in 2015.
• The Supreme Court has not agreed to hear the case, and multiple legal analysts characterize the bid to revisit Obergefell through this petition as a long shot.
• Ohio Equal Rights and allied lawmakers are advancing 2026 ballot measures to repeal the state’s same-sex marriage ban and add anti-discrimination protections after the ballot board split the proposals into two.
• Even if Obergefell were reversed, the Respect for Marriage Act would require federal and interstate recognition of same-sex marriages performed where legal, though states could again control licensing, and support for marriage equality remains high with more than 823,000 married same-sex couples nationwide.