Same-Sex Marriage Victors Ready to Refight Battle Already Won

Three attorneys on the team that drove the US Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling to legalize gay marriage feel new anxiety after the high court’s June opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.

The court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization opinion voided the rationale that underpinned Roe, and Obergefell v. Hodges stood on similar reasoning. Although the majority opinion in Dobbs stressed the ruling was limited to abortion, Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurrence called out Obergefell as a ruling to reconsider.

That left Obergefell’s legal team in a position some didn’t think they’d be in just seven years after winning their case—strategizing ...