Alabama stacks deck against Chief Justice Roy Moore
The Southern Poverty Law Center was among the parties that filed complaints against Moore’s administrative order to state judges to uphold Alabama’s legal definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman after a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court majority ruled Americans have a constitutional right to “gay marriage.”
Now the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission has appointed John Carroll, a professor of law at Samford University in Alabama and former SPLC legal director, as the prosecutor in the case against Moore.
Moore’s critics claimed his order violated ethics rules, and the state Judicial Inquiry Commission issued six charges against the chief justice in the state’s Court of the Judiciary....