The Most Visible Moorite Wins

Parker beats Justice Brown in Supreme Court Place 1 race

Former Chief Justice Roy Moore backed four candidates in the Alabama Republican primary, but only one scored an outright victory Tuesday night.

That candidate was Tom Parker, a former Moore aide who campaigned against Supreme Court Justice Jean Brown's vote to remove Moore's Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building.

With of 2,469 of 2,583 boxes reporting statewide, Parker, though decisively outspent by Brown, outpaced the Place 1 incumbent, 105,642 votes to 102,441 votes, or 51 percent to 49 percent.

Parker was the most visible and most stridently pro-Moore of the candidates running in the primary. Further, he unseated an incumbent who had voted to remove the Ten Commandments monument from the Judicial Building, so this win will help to keep Moorism alive in state politics for the foreseeable future. I find that to be unfortunate. Parker was the candidate whose advertising most bespoke of what I would describe as judicial activism despite his claims of conservativism.

At least Moore's coattails weren't too long: the othe two Moorite judicial candidates lost (there may be a run-off in one of the races, however) and the one congressial candidate was trounced.