MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore’s career is in the hands of the Court of Judiciary.
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“The probate judges were flapping in the wind”.
As a result of Moore’s order, some state probate judges closed their offices while attempting to determine what course of action to take, some announced they would not issue marriage licenses to any coules regardless of gender, and a few very publicly and openly defied Moore.
The commission has accused Moore of urging probate judges to defy the courts on gay marriage.
August 8, 2016: The Alabama Court of the Judiciary hears Moore’s request to dismiss the charges. He specifically stated he could not offer the probate judges advice or counsel on the issue of same-sex marriage because the state court had yet to rule on several procedural developments in a state case that was filed prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision.
A lawyer for Moore said the chief justice was only clarifying the status of the state injunction that was issued in March and the court had languished despite the landmark ruling on gay marriage. Moore said decision legalizing gay marriage would be among the court’s greatest mistakes.
A court is considering whether suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore should lose his job for an order on gay marriage. Moore told the probate judges a ban on issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples was still in effect until the Alabama Supreme Court issued a ruling.
A complaint was lodged against Moore for violating judicial ethics with the Judicial Inquiry Commission, which chose to prosecute the case in May. He is accused of breaking judicial ethics during the fight over same-sex marriage in the state. I said until the Alabama Supreme Court rules, this order remains in full force and effect. The attorneys for both the JIC and Moore told Joiner they don’t see a trial going beyond a day.
Carroll is representing state judicial investigators who filed charges against Moore.
The Alabama Court of the Judiciary will decide if Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore violated judicial ethics with a January order to probate judges regarding same-sex marriage. Moore’s order was merely a legal “truism” that the order had not been lifted by the state court, he argued.
Moore opponents, led by Starling, and advocates lined up outside the judicial building in anticipation of the hearing.
The report said 28 percent picked Moore, 24 percent were undecided, Attorney General Luther Strange got 9 percent and another handful each drew support in the single digits.
“I absolutely reject, and (Moore) absolutely rejects that, and it has no place”, Staver said.
“They don’t want anybody opposing any agenda of the homosexual movement”, Moore said. “We’ve said it many times, he acts as if he is the Ayatollah of Alabama”.
SPLC president Richard Cohen rejected the allegation.
He denounced his critics and singled out Dothan drag queen Ambrosia Starling, who was among those filing complaints with the JIC.
“We lost the war between the states”.
Linda Chasom drove three hours from Georgia to attend the hearing, saying she thought Moore was being persecuted for his conservative Christian beliefs.
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“My family is being persecuted”. He questioned why the JIC wants to remove Moore from the bench while the JIC on Monday had agreed to only a six months suspension for Tallapoosa Probate Judge Leon Archer for sexting with a litigant.
