Here’s disturbing observation from the Bench Conference blog at WaPo,
concerning observations made in the campaign to elect the Chief Justice of
the Alabama Supreme Court:
The race was between incumbent Chief Justice Drayton Nabers
and Associate Justice Tom Parker. According to the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, Parker, a disciple of Judge Roy Moore, the former
Chief Justice who ignored the law and tried to wedge a Ten Commandments
monument into his courthouse, called Nabers a “Jimmy Carter-style liberal”
who “backs legal abortion up to the day of delivery.” That forced Nabers to
come out and say he is pro-life and against same-sex marriage. Silly you.
You thought judges were supposed to keep their political views to themselves
and not tip their hands about legal issues that may come before
them.
All sense of judicial propriety seems to go out the window once the Bread
and Circus wagon is rolled out onto the political stage.