Oregon follows Alabama in trying to remove a judge from the bench for not following a U.S. Supreme Court precedent

I wrote yesterday about a trial in Alabama against Alabama Chief Judge Roy Moore who refused to obey the U.S. SUpreme Court precedent regarding same-sex marriage.

The State of Oregon prepares the same fate for state judge Vance Day who refused to perform same sex marriages based on his religious beliefs.

Regardless of whether Judges Roy Moore and Vance Day are right or wrong in their positions, disciplinary proceedings against them for disobeying a U.S. Supreme Court precedent set a precedent that for a judge to disobey a U.S. Supreme Court precedent - any precedent - is a violation of his or her oath of office warranting removal.

And such a precedent is extremely important for civil rights litigation across the country where judges, both state and federal, pick and choose which of the U.S. Supreme Court precedents to obey and which to ignore and punish for even mentioning.

I will continue to cover the Vance Day and the Roy Moore stories.

Stay tuned.