Ex parte Moore

I must respectfully dissent. On October 7, 1998, Judge Roy S. Moore, Etowah County Circuit Judge, petitioned this Court for a writ of prohibition and a writ of quo warranto, claiming 1) that the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission (“JIC”) had been conducting an investigation of him that violated the constitutional guaranty of due process and violated the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure; 2) that Supreme Court Justice H. Mark Kennedy’s membership on the JIC was unlawful; and 3) that it was appropriate for this Court to issue the extraordinary writs of prohibition and quo warranto. Justice…