US Supreme Court considers overturning same-sex marriage ruling
A call to overturn the landmark US Supreme Court decision legalising same-sex marriage America-wide is on the agenda for the justices' closed-door conference.
Among the new cases the justices are expected to consider is a longshot appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.
Davis had been trying to get the court to overturn a lower court order for her to pay $554,000 in damages and attorney’s fees to a couple whom she denied a marriage licence.
Kim Davis refused to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples. (AP)
The justices could say as early as Monday what they'll do.
In urging the court to take up her case, Davis' lawyers repeate...