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Lawyers for Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who received international attention for denying same-sex couples marriage licenses, say the 6-3 Republican-appointed majority on the Supreme Court could absolve her of wrongdoing after a series of religious liberty decisions. With representation from Christian nonprofit organization Liberty Counsel, her lawyers said in a July 15 filing that the high court has decided three cases that are "sharpening and amplifying the free exercise rights" at the core of Davis's qualified immunity defense, which she argues are her sincerely held religious beliefs against same-sex marriage. She's been in legal battles since 2015,...

The decision of the Supreme Court in Obergefell v Hodges effectively legalised same-sex marriage throughout the United States.Or did it?A group of 60 distinguished scholars, mostly lawyers, insist that it does not. They have thrown down the gauntlet, arguing that the Supreme Court is supreme in the federal judicial system. But the justices are not supreme over the executive and legislative branches of government. “And they are certainly not supreme over the Constitution.”Behind this audacious challenge is Princeton Professor Robert P. George, an eminent academic and a seasoned campaigner in the battle to stop same-sex marriage.For village pump lawyers, this...