Chief Justice Roy Moore will hold a press conference today at the Alabama Supreme Court after the replacement judges are selected for his appeal. The drawing of the judges is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. CT.

Chief Justice Moore had filed a motion to recuse four of the five justices who made up the 5-3 opinion to select retired, rather than current, judges. These include Lynn Stuart, Michael Bolin, James, Main and Greg Shaw. Moore argued that Justice Stuart should play no role in selecting replacement judges due to conflict of interest, and further argued that a judge who is disqualified from acting cannot be the one to appoint a replacement. In the motion to recuse, Chief Justice Moore also requested that replacement justices be selected by a random and publicly observable drawing from a pool of sitting circuit judges.

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