Alabama Chief Justice defies the Federal Supreme Court
"When a court order departs from the law and tells you what you can think and who you can believe in," he said, the judge issuing that order is "telling you to violate your oath. And he can't do that. Judges simply don't have that power."
Here’s a CNN report on the fracas involving Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and the Ten Commandments monument he erected in the State Judicial Building in Montgomery, in blatant contradiction of the separation between Church and State. You can Google for more examples.
Let’s look at that quote again. The Supreme Court weren’t saying that Justice Moore wasn’t allowed to believe in the Bible in his own back yard. They were saying that he shouldn’t erect, in public, a gigantic Christian monument in the midst of an explicitly non-religious institution. They made that decision, and he, as a supreme State law official, decided that he wasn’t going to obey.
For crying out loud, what is the US coming to when their senior judges decide that they’re only going to obey the law when they want to?