The clerk made headlines when she denied same-sex couples the right to marry following the Supreme Court’s decision to make same-sex marriage legal across all 50 states in the US.
However, LGBTQ+ campaigners were left alarmed and angry after two supreme court justices attacked the 2015 decision to legalise same-sex marriage.
Supreme court justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said that they agreed with the decision not to hear Kim Davis’ case for appeal, but added that it was a “stark reminder of the consequences” of the landmark decision five years ago.
The justices also claimed that Kim Davis “may have been one of the first victims of this court’s cavalier treatment of religion in its Obergefell decision”.