Oregon circuit court Judge Vance D. Day, like Kim Davis, tried to stand in the way of same-sex marriages by having court staffers screen couples to make sure they weren’t same-sex couples and by refusing to perform the marriages. Judge Day is now under investigation for several violations of the Oregon Code of Judicial Conduct and the Oregon Constitution, which include hanging a portrait of Hitler inside the Marion County courthouse.
Day is accused of forcing veterans to watch a PTSD triggering video and calling those same vets “raggedy asses,” according to documents. “I’m the judge—I can do whatever I want,” Day reportedly said.
His behavior would foreshadow his decision to hang a picture of Adolf Hitler in the courthouse and his calling himself a “dictator.” Court documents also list accusations that Day collected money from court-appearing lawyers in order to sponsor “veteran-related wall hangings,” like the Hitler one.
When asked about the wall hanging Day said,
Day even hung pictures in a judicial assistant’s work space after she said she didn’t want them, so she took the pictures down when Day was on vacation. According to court documents Day told her that he's a "‘benevolent dictator’ and that she ‘works at his pleasure.’"
Judge Day will appear in court Nov. 9.
[via Koin]
