The U.S Supreme Court has finally agreed to review a same-sex marriage case – in fact, four cases.
After considering a total of twelve same-sex marriage cases three different times this session, moments ago the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will accept a same-sex marriage case for review, in fact, all four cases from the 6th Circuit.
The court last Friday, January 9, considered four cases from the 6th Circuit, and one case from Louisiana, Robicheaux v. George. The Court neither accepted nor declined any marriage cases. On Monday, January 12, the only action the Court took on marriage was to decline to review the Louisiana case, as expected, since it had not yet been reviewed by an appellate court.
Today, again, the Court met in a scheduled but secret closed-door meeting to reconsider the four cases: Michigan’s DeBoer v. Snyder, Kentucky’s Bourke v. Beshear and Love v. Beshear, Ohio’s Obergefell v. Wymyslo and Henry v. Hodges, and Tennessee’s Tanco v. Haslam.
In October, the Court was presented with seven cases from five states, but declined to review any of them, paving the way for stays to fall and the number of marriage equality states to explode.
Ultimately, the Court will decide if same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, or if states have a constitutional right to ban them from the institution.
UPDATE 1 – 3:34 PM EST:
Screeenshot of the order:
 UPDATE II:
A few tweets:
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