"My wife and I got married last year – so obviously it’s very important to me that gay marriage is legal in Michigan," she said.

This decision depends on whether or not the government body opts to intervene in the case of Kim Davis - an Kentucky ex-country clerk who was imprisoned for six days in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licenses to a same-sex couple on the grounds of religion.

Legal experts weighed in on whether the court is likely to accept a challenge filed by Kentucky clerk Kim Davis.