Alabama Dems May Remove Virulently Anti-Immigrant & Anti-Gay Supreme Court Candidate From Ballot

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Alabama Democrats May Remove Virulently Anti-Immigrant And Anti-Gay Supreme Court Candidate From Ballot

During last March’s primary to select candidates for Alabama’s next chief justice, both major parties embarrassed themselves. Disgraced former Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was removed from office for defying a court order to remove an unconstitutional Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building in 2003, defeated incumbent Chief Justice Chuck Malone to receive the Republican Party’s nomination. Meanwhile, Alabama Democrats nominated Harry Lyon, a perennial candidate who called for “public execution” of undocumented immigrants, and who was once shot in the neck after a neighbor caught Lyons pouring chocolate syrup on the neighbor’s car.

In the wake of several hateful anti-gay statements Lyons wrote on his Facebook page, the state’s Democrats are now trying to disqualify him as their candidate:

The Alabama Democratic Party plans a hearing in Birmingham on Friday to discuss the possible disqualification of Harry Lyon, currently the party’s candidate for Chief Justice, and Lyon said he believes the party will drop him from the ballot.

The body of evidence submitted in the show-cause letter includes inflammatory comments made about gays on his Facebook page, but Bradley Davidson, executive director of the Alabama Democratic Party, said Monday evening that the move was chiefly because of incidents that indicate “a lack of self-control and bizarre behavior.” . . .

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Full article here: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/16/699341/alabama-democrats-may-remove-virulently-anti-immigrant-and-anti-gay-supreme-court-candidate-from-ballot/