Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court is expected to decide Friday whether to take up an appeal by a former Kentucky county clerk, Kim Davis, seeking to overturn the 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.
The high court justices will consider the case in a closed-door meeting to determine what cases they'll take up in the coming months. They'll cast secret votes on dozens of cases, the results of which will likely be made public Monday.
Davis, the former county clerk in Rowan County, Ky., was ordered to jail in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She said doing so was in direct violation of her religious beliefs.
Davis is now asking the now-Republican-leaning Supreme Court to overturn the 2015 Obergefell vs. Hodges ruling on the grounds that the high court's decision based on the 14th Amendment's due process protections was "legal fiction," ABC News reported. She also said her own legal troubles for denying marriage licenses violated her First Amendment right to free exercise of religion.
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