Suspended Alabama chief justice sues state judicial panel

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Suspended Alabama chief justice sues state judicial panel

Jay Reeves, Associated Press

Updated 4:17 pm, Friday, May 27, 2016

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore filed a federal lawsuit Friday against the state agency that leveled ethics charges against him, claiming the state law that led to his removal from the bench is unconstitutional.

The suit against the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission asks a court to order Moore's immediate reinstatement as head of Alabama's court system.

The lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of a provision in state law that mandates the automatic suspension of state judges once ethics charges are filed.

Given the power to suspend judges, the suit claims, the commission "can wield its significant power over Alabama's elected judges — including the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court — based upon trivialities, viewpoint-based objections, differences in legal interpretation, political motivations or, even worse, to protect itself from investigation of violations of its own rules."

. . .

Moore, a conservative Christian Republican, opposes same-sex marriage on the basis of faith and the law. In January he issued an administrative order to state probate judges that said state laws against gay marriage remained in place months after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively legalized gay marriage nationwide.


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[Archae]

1. This bum is nuts.

Been hit too often with a big family Bible.

[awoke_in_2003]

6. That made me think of a Ganglion cyst

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganglion_cyst

[bucolic_frolic]

2. We're winning on this front

but regulations, environment, unions, social program funding, we're lagging

Pure obstructionists these GOP creeps

[yallerdawg]

3. Republicans...

Moore was previously removed as chief justice in 2003 over his refusal to follow a federal judge's order requiring the removal of a Ten Commandments monument that Moore placed in the rotunda of the state's main judicial building.

Voters overwhelmingly returned Moore to the post in 2012.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. It's time for Justice Moore to retire

I'm sure he has grandchildren with whom he can spend more time.

[forest444]

5. Or, like Governor Bentley, mistresses.

Don't do anything I wouldn't do, Roy!

[awoke_in_2003]

7. I never could understand people

who are eligible for Social Securtiy, and have a pension, would keep working so long. If I had those, I would be playing with the grandchildren.

[rug]

8. He's worried he may have to take them to the bathroom.

[ReRe]

9. They probably don't want...

... to be anywhere near him, if he does have a family.