Associated Press - July 22, 2009 8:34 PM ET

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The Idaho Supreme Court is considering whether judges must always make their bed in the same counties where they officially sit on the bench - and whether one district judge should be suspended until he actually resides in the same county as his chambers.

Second District Judge John Bradbury has a home in Nez Perce County as well as one in Idaho County, where his resident chambers are. The Idaho Judicial Council has asked that Bradbury be suspended, arguing that his primary home is in Nez Perce County and that he doesn't actually live in Idaho County.

But Bradbury's attorney Michael McNichols told the high court Wednesday that the state law doesn't designate a minimum number of nights per week that someone must live in a county. Bradbury spends at least one night a week in Idaho County.

Keith Roark, the judicial council attorney, contends that Bradbury is violating the residency law.

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