Today, Liberty Counsel has filed its reply in the Court of the Judiciary (COJ) to dismiss charges brought by the Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) against Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. The hearing is scheduled for August 8. Liberty Counsel and Judicial Action Group represent Chief Justice Moore.

“The JIC has tried to write a story that does not exist,” said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. “The focus of the JIC charge is Chief Justice Moore’s January 2016 Administrative Order. In the 3½ page order, Chief Justice Moore plainly states, ‘I am not at liberty to provide any guidance to Alabama probate judges on the effect of Obergefell on the existing orders of the Alabama Supreme Court. That issue remains before the entire Court which continues to deliberate on the matter.’ Moore never ordered the probate judges to disregard the U.S. Supreme Court’s marriage opinion, but that is the slanderous narrative of the JIC. The JIC has no case and never should have filed the baseless charge,” said Staver.

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