Two Mobile attorneys launch write-in campaigns for Alabama Supreme Court chief justice
Now one of them needs to be convinced to quit.
MONTGOMERY | Two Mobile attorneys, including one who sued former Chief Justice Roy Moore over his Ten Commandments monument, are launching write-in campaigns to try to keep Moore from returning to the chief justice's office.
Ginger Poynter and Melinda Lee Maddox said they have never run for public office before, but Moore's victory in the Republican primary March 13 prompted them to enter the race.
"The Republicans in Alabama have brought back the man I took out of office a decade ago," Maddox said Wednesday.
Maddox is one of the three lawyers who successfully sued Moore over the Ten Commandments monument he placed in the lobby of the state judicial building in 2001. Moore refused to obey a federal court order to remove the 5,200-pound monument, and a state judicial court kicked him out of office in 2003. The monument is now displayed at a church in Gadsden.
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