Kim Davis’s challenge to gay marriage uses highly unusual legal approach

Appeal to Supreme Court seeks to overturn 2015 Obergefell decision

Kim Davis as seen in a Liberty Counsel video.

The typical way to try to get the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a major ruling is to violate that ruling or pass a law contrary to it. This is exactly how anti-abortion activists sought to get the high court to overrule Roe v. Wade: They persuaded Mississippi legislators to pass a law contrary to Roe’s provi…