Chief Justice Roy Moore is scheduled to stand trial on November 12 for honoring his oath of office contrary to a federal court order which ordered him to remove the Ten Commandment monuments because a federal judge found it to be illegal for the Chief Justice or the State of Alabama to acknowledge God.

In order to secure a fair trial and to satisfy legitimate due process concerns, attorneys for Chief Justice Roy Moore petitioned the Court of the Judiciary to allow him to question panel members who will be deciding his case about possible bias. Given the possible involvement of a number of people on the panel in activities related to the case, but adverse to the Chief Justice, a real possibility exists that several members of the panel should recuse themselves. Today the panel announced that it refused to answer any questions about possible bias.