Faithful servant of Jesus Christ and Constitutionalist, Tom Parker, was sworn into the office of Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court last Thursday in a private ceremony in the chambers of United States Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas. Tom, along with his wife Dottie (pictured above) are close friends of the Phillips family, (and graduates of the Witherspoon School of Law and Public Policy), served as an advisor to former Chief Justice Roy Moore, and an officer of the Alabama Supreme Court.
After the removal of Chief Justice Moore, Tom was fired from his job at the Court by Justice Gorman Houston, for Tom’s support of Justice Moore and the biblical view of the rule of law. Tom proceeded to run for Alabama Supreme Court Justice and was resoundingly elected by the people of the state of Alabama. In a blessed turn-around, Tom unseated one of the very members of the Court complicit in the persecution of the Chief Justice and the removal of the Ten Commandments monument.
About twenty friends and supporters of Justice Tom Parker joined him in the chambers of United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for his official swearing-in ceremony. I was honored to be invited by Tom and Dottie to attend along with my father Howard Phillips, brother Samuel Phillips, and personal assistant Bob Renaud.
Justice Thomas was delighted by Tom’s gift of a leather-bound copy of the Constitution. Thomas was so impressed with the edition that he inquired about the publisher. We all had a good laugh when we found out it came from Restoration Hardware.