Chief Justice Roy Moore was given an unprecedented judicial suspension when the Court of the Judiciary (COJ) unlawfully suspended him on September 30 for the remainder of his term, which runs through January 2019. In 2001-2002, COJ Rule 16 was amended to require a unanimous 9-0 vote to remove a judge from office.

The longest suspension of any Alabama judge under amended Rule 16 is 180 days, or six months. Therefore, Chief Justice Moore’s suspension of 28 months is four times longer than the longest judicial suspension in Alabama history under amended Rule 16. Since Rule 16 was amended, no judge until now has ever been suspended for the rest of a term without pay.

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