In a lawsuit by a judge who doesn’t want to face discipline for opposing same-sex marriage, the judge and Texas Commission for Judicial Conduct are squabbling over whether a federal court in Fort Worth or Austin should hear the dispute.

Jack County Justice of the Peace Brian Keith Umphress, who stated in his lawsuit that he’s been marrying heterosexual couples and refusing weddings to same-sex couples because of his religion, had filed his lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Fort Worth.

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