Last month, Jefferson County voters elected a new judge. Now, she may never take the bench

[malaise]

Please explain how this works


https://www.cbs42.com/alabama-news/last-month-jefferson-county-voters-elected-a-new-judge-now-she-may-never-take-the-bench/

With nearly 54% of the vote, Tiara Young Hudson won the Democratic primary election, and with no Republican opposition, she was set to become the first public defender to ever serve as a circuit court judge in Jefferson County. However, Hudson may never get to take the seat she won at the ballot box.

On Thursday, the Judicial Resources Allocation Commission voted to move the seat she’d campaigned for out of Jefferson County and over to Madison County. The body, which is chaired by Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker, is charged with setting criteria for determining the number of judges needed in courts across the state. The law allows the body to “reallocate” judgeships to address needs in other geographic areas.
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Is this the new Jim Crow or something else?

[Karadeniz]

1. Sounds fishy...

[Phoenix61]

2. I'm going with new Jim Crow. nt

[Wounded Bear]

4. Sure sounds like it...when it walks like a duck, yada, yada, yada...nt

[Kid Berwyn]

3. When "Republican" is code for KKK...

…and “Democrat” stands for integrity, Alabama justice made its choice.

A turning point was when KKKarl Rove foisted Judge Mark E Fuller onto the federal bench in order to railroad Gov. Don Siegelman.

Know your BFEE: Siegelman Judge is a big-time War Profiteer

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10022073759

Then there’s the Republican US Attorney with Alabama connections who flew to Michigan for sex with a person he believed to be 5 years old…

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10023943802#post22

[malaise]

9. Indeed

Thanks for the reminder

[towerbum]

11. It's not code anymore ! they are !

[Celerity]

15. Toddler Rape-aspiring Rethugs, it's a thing

[Kid Berwyn]

16. He tried to kill himself.

The guy was fixed up in the Michigan hospital and returned to prison. Then, for some inexplicable reason, he was put in a cell with all he needed to kill himself.

Had he lived, he might’ve shared what and who he knew.

[blogslug]

5. There is this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Parker_(judge)

Alleged support of white supremacist groups

As a candidate in 2004, he was criticized by the Southern Poverty Law Center for distributing confederate flags at a funeral of a confederate widow. Parker was photographed at the funeral standing between Leonard Wilson, a board member of the Council of Conservative Citizens, and Mike Whorton, a leader with the League of the South. He denied being a member of either group and said he did not consider his actions in either event inappropriate for a judicial candidate. Parker was also criticized for attending a party in Selma commemorating the birthday of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, founder of the Ku Klux Klan. The party was hosted at "Fort Dixie" by Pat and Butch Godwin, operator of Friends of Forrest Inc. and also involved with the League of the South.

[malaise]

7. Thanks for this

[crickets]

6. This is a blatant disenfranchisement of the voters who chose her. nt

[malaise]

8. Indeed

Scary

[barbtries]

10. I would say it's the new jim crow.

someone was not about to allow a black woman to be a judge.
Alabama is one of the states I plan never to visit.

[lonely bird]

12. New?

No. Just the same old bullshit that was driven underground until the Mango Mussolini allowed it to come back into the light.

Racists gotta racist.

[KS Toronado]

13. Looked up Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker,

He's Alabama's most conservative judge, and we know conservative judges always stick their necks
into politics. Since he waited until after the election to basically "fire" her in advance tells us
everything we need to know.....he's scared of intelligent black females who are Democrat.

[Samrob]

18. Can she sue him for discrimination?

[KS Toronado]

19. That'll be a good question for a Civil Rights Attorney

[Emile]

14. Well it sure as hell is not a coincidence!

[CaptainTruth]

17. I thought conservatives hated "activist judges"?