At a closed-door conference Friday, the Supreme Court is set to consider a longshot appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused marriage licenses to same-sex couples after Obergefell v. Hodges. Davis seeks to overturn a lower court order requiring her to pay $360,000 in damages and fees to a couple she turned away. Her lawyers invoke Justice Clarence Thomas’s criticism of Obergefell, while Chief Justice John Roberts has stayed quiet and Justice Samuel Alito says he isn’t urging reversal. The justices could announce next steps as soon as Monday.

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