“Alabama’s chief justice, who famously refused to remove a Ten Commandments monument from a state judicial building, has urged probate judges to refuse marriage licenses to gay couples...”
This is the first time I have heard of a judge’s “Urge.”
I have heard of a judge’s order or ruling, but not an urge.
Hmm....California’s SCOTUS (a majority of the court, not just the CJ) ordered all state judges to not participate in Boy Scouts or risk disbarment.
Here we have a CJ (without the majority of the court, I suppose) urging but not ordering state judges to not follow the Federal judge’s order.
So they may follow it if they wish or not, I suppose.