Alabama GOP nominates Roy Moore's confederacy-obsessed protege to be chief justice
They never learn.
IAN MILLHISER JUN 8, 2018, 8:00 AM
Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker’s record reads like a bad parody of a white southern Republican from some over-dramatic liberal’s chapbook. And yet, if the Alabama Republican Party gets its way, Parker will be the state’s next chief justice. Earlier this week, Parker defeated incumbent Chief Justice Lyn Stuart for the GOP nomination to take over her job.
Before joining the court himself, Parker was a top aide to then-Chief Justice Roy Moore, the Republican U.S. Senate hopeful whose campaign imploded due to credible allegations that Moore preyed sexually on young teenagers.
Like Moore, Parker holds a deep animus against LGBTQ people, and he believes that his judicial decisions should be driven by his conservative religious beliefs. Parker once compared a federal judge, who ruled against the now-defunct ban on gay members of the military serving openly, to Al-Qaeda. He also wrote a judicial opinion claiming that the Supreme Court’s decision permitting same-sex couples to marry “conclusively demonstrates that the rule of law is dead.”
Oh, and there’s one other thing. Parker appears to be quite enamored of a treasonous war fought to defend the idea that white people can own black people.
https://thinkprogress.org/gop-nominee-to-be-alabama-chief-justice-is-a-roy-moore-protege-tied-to-white-supremacists-c9c6674c7241/
In other words he is a clone of Moore, what could possibly go wrong...................