Court Opinion

ID: 9527428
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:30:32.476051+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:25:47.375063
License: Public Domain

LAWSON, J.,
concurs.
BLOODWORTH, Justice (concurring specially).
I concur in the result insofar as it rests upon charges and evidence as to acts of petitioner while a practicing attorney. To rest the decision upon acts performed as a judge leads, in my opinion, to the indirect discipline or disbarment of a judge by the Bar in violation of the Alabama Constitution which provides impeachment as the exclusive mode for the removal of judges. Sections 173, 174, 175, Art. 7, Constitution of 1901; Moore, supra; Aderholt, supra. I consider this a fundamental “essential to the maintenance of an independent judiciary.”
SIMPSON, J.,