MORGAN COUNTY, AL - The Alabama Republican State Executive Committee recently overwhelmingly passed two resolutions requesting changes in the state's process for punishing judges and for mandates regarding the composition of the Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC).
In light of the baseless charges filed against Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore by the JIC regarding his administrative order issued in January 2016, Alabama's Republican Party's executive committee asks that the state legislature enact a law to abolish the rule that judges are automatically suspended when charges are filed by the JIC. The resolution also calls for the election of all nine of the JIC members.
Represented by Liberty Counsel, Chief Justice Moore, who has been suspended from the bench since last April, faces a trial on September 28 to defend the six politically motivated charges filed against him by the JIC, all focused on his January 2016 Administrative Order.
"The current situation allows the JIC too much power and the ability to punish judges without due process," said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. "Chief Justice Roy Moore should have never been suspended from his bench from these baseless charges. The JIC has become an arm of the Southern Poverty Law Center and other politically-motivated groups. The JIC is not supposed to be politically biased but it has become so. The JIC needs to be reigned in."
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