As official scrutiny of her role in the Russia collusion hoax continues to escalate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is sounding the alarm about potential action at the Supreme Court, in what is arguably an effort to inflame her party’s liberal base.

As Axios reports, Clinton recently warned that, in her opinion, the United States Supreme Court is poised to “do to gay marriage what they did to abortion,” referencing the 2022 decision to overturn the abortion precedent of Roe v. Wade.

Obergefell revisited?

Clinton gave voice to her concerns during an appearance last week on the Raging Moderates podcast, hosted by Jessica Tarlov and Scott Galloway.

Her comments came in response to the news that the high court has been formally asked to revisit -- and overturn -- the landmark same-sex marriage decision of Obergefell v. Hodges.

That ruling extended marriage rights to same-sex couples pursuant to the due process protections articulated in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The petition for a writ of certiorari was filed by Kim Davis, the former county clerk from Kentucky who was briefly jailed in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, citing her religious convictions, as ABC News reports.

Notably, Davis is one of the few individuals who possesses legal standing to challenge the precedent, which she has now done.

Clinton weighs in

Not surprisingly, Clinton raised the red flag about what she feels the conservative-majority court may do if the panel decides to hear the aforementioned case.

She also asserted that the outcome she anticipates would be the product of a long-term strategy on the part of the political right.

“American voters, and to some extent the American media, don’t understand how many years the Republicans have been working in order to get us to this point,” she told Tarlov.

Clinton continued, “It took 50 years to overturn Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court will hear a case about gay marriage; my prediction is they will do what they did to abortion -- they will send it back to the states.”

The failed presidential candidate then offered some advice to those who could be impacted by such a decision, saying, “Anybody in a committed relationship out there in the LGBTQ community, you ought to consider getting married because I don’t think they’ll undo existing marriages, but I fear they will undo the national right.”

Not so fast

Despite Clinton’s predictions, Damon Root, writing for Reason, is far from convinced that any real changes are necessarily on the horizon.

As Root points out, just because the high court was asked to reconsider Obergefell does not mean that the justices will agree to do so, and, he suggests, even if they were to accept the case, he does not believe -- aside from Justice Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and possibly Neil Gorsuch -- that there are the votes to reverse the gay marriage precedent. Whether that take is the correct one, only time will tell.