None of this is to say that a cert grant is impossible, that overturning Obergefell isn’t a serious goal of this admin, or that people shouldn’t start thinking about ways to protect themselves and their families, but I am approaching all of this coverage with skepticism and a lot of questions.

Davis filed her most recent petition on July 24. I can only find 2 articles about it in July from Catholic News Agency and Courthouse News Service. Weeks later, it’s all over social and mainstream media as if it happened yesterday. Why? Did someone tip off MSM? In whose interest is it to fuel panic?

In fact, Davis asked the Court to hear her case in 2020 and cert was denied. Reporting on it was slim, because again, cert petitions are rarely newsworthy.

Despite misleading headlines, the Court has not decided yet whether to take up the case. SCOTUS receives 7 to 8 thousand cert petitions each year and decides to hear ~80. Rarely do petitions that haven’t been granted make national news because there is roughly a 1% they will even be heard.