The World Around You

I agree 100% with James’s take on the AWOL Mom.

For a group that believes the federal judiciary is out of control, they certainly ask them for assistance often enough,

federal lawsuit is being filed Thursday on behalf of Alabama voters in an attempt to reverse the removal of Roy Moore as that state’s chief justice.

The suit alleges that voters’ constitutional rights were violated when the Alabama Court of the Judiciary, an unelected panel, dismissed Moore, an elected state official, over his refusal to move a Ten Commandments display from the rotunda of the state courthouse in Montgomery.

Five registered Alabama voters are the plaintiffs in the suit, which claims the panel’s Nov. 13 action violates the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

“It is deeply troubling to have an appointed, unelected commission remove an elected official from office,” Rev. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition (CDC), said Wednesday. “The Court of the Judiciary has overturned an election and crushed the democratic process through its actions.”

Mahoney told CNSNews.com that the suit seeks a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the nine members of the judicial panel. If the court takes those actions, Moore would then be reinstated as the state’s chief justice, the post to which he was elected with more than 70 percent of the vote during the 2000 election.

“No person should be removed from elected office by an appointed commission, regardless of his political or ideological view,” Mahoney said, adding that he believes the panel “has basically overturned an election in a sovereign state.”

Also, where in the world do they keep getting this 70% from? Roy Moore received 54.6% of the vote in the 2000 election. It’s just another instance of Roy’s supporters re-writing history.

UPDATE:

Much hay is going to be made over an AP report that two members of the Court of the Judiciary in Alabama gave campaign contributions to Roy Moore’s opponent. However, in the 16th paragraph, this interesting piece of information is revealed,

The campaign finance report for Yates showed she received contributions from many of the state’s best known attorneys before the 2000 election. One of those donations was for $1,000 from Butts, who gave the money from funds left in his campaign fund from an unsuccessful 1998 campaign for attorney general.

Roy Moore’s own attorney gave campaign money to his opponent! If this doesn’t show how ridiculous the argument of impropriety is, people are simply blind.

UPDATE: Mac takes the irony here even further.

It’s time for all of those people who have ideas for how the state can save money to speak up. There are people available to listen,

Members of a subcommittee, including Jefferson County Probate Judge Mike Bolin, are focusing on public safety agencies and want to hear about ways the state can save money and become more efficient with its state troopers, prisons, National Guard units, emergency management agencies, courts, district attorneys and other public safety branches and departments.

They plan to hold a public hearing starting at 9 a.m. Friday in room 727 of the State House, at 11 S. Union St., just east of the Capitol.

Anyone who wants to talk to that group must make a reservation by calling Karen Portera in Montgomery at 334-353-1540 or calling 866-468-2323. Each person will be asked to speak no more than five minutes.

Anyone who can’t make it to the hearing still may share money-saving ideas on public safety agencies or any other area of state government by calling the same phone numbers or writing a letter or e-mail to the commission.

The commission’s e-mail address is cecf@governor.state.al.us. Its postal address is CECF, 401 Adams Ave. Suite 480, Montgomery, AL 36130.

I think it would be wonderful if the commission is flooded with ideas.