Traditional-marriage 'hero' Roy Moore removed from office
Alabama judicial officials 'chose to ignore the law and the rules'
09.30.2016
Bob Unruh

Judicial officials in Alabama have chosen to “ignore the law and the rules” by imposing a term-long unpaid suspension on state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, his lawyers are charging.

The banishment until the end of Moore’s term was imposed by a Court of the Judiciary panel led by J. Michael Joiner, a criminal appeals judge, after the Judicial Inquiry Commission, at the behest of the Southern Poverty Law Center, claimed Moore essentially told probate judges to disobey the law.

Joiner was unresponsive to a WND inquiry seeking a comment. An aide transferred a WND call to Joiner’s extension, where someone in the chambers picked up the phone and immediately hung up.

The case was developed with the help of a former SPLC official who was hired by the JIC for the case.

Moore’s legal representatives at Liberty Counsel were outraged, arguing the COJ didn’t even follow the law in its decision.

“To suspend Chief Justice Moore for the rest of his term is the same as removal,” said Liberty Counsel Chairman Mat Staver. “The COJ lacked the unanimous votes to remove the chief, so the majority instead chose to ignore the law and the rules.”

He blasted the organization as biased.

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