Comments on: Jim Main Not Running for Supreme Court

By: Roy's a bum

Roy's a bum — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:56:43 +0000

I don’t know which Woodall you are referring to, but the Justice Tom Woodall most people is an excellent jurist and one of the most fair-minded and evenhanded judges in this state. Justice Woodall has always called them like he sees them and follows the law, regardless of the parties or the lawyers that appear before him. He might make mistakes in applying the law (he grew up in Mississippi), but he doesn’t kowtow to any special interest group and has no agenda on the Supreme Court except to uphold his oath of faithfully applying the Constitution and laws to the cases that come before the court. Roy, you should be ashamed of resorting to name-calling of such a good and worthy public servant.

By: Roy

Roy — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:08:19 +0000

Is that the same Woodall that used to be a sore-neck State Farm lawyer?

By: speculator

speculator — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:01:03 +0000

please forgive my typo on Justice Woodall’s name.

By: speculator

speculator — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:00:16 +0000

bhmhomeboy: Republicans (like Lyons/Wooddall/Harwood) who think that sometimes when a business, or its owner (like Ashland, Inc, or William Ware, D.O.) is found by a jury to be responsible for harming an individual (like Jack Cline or Johnnie Timmons) they ought to pay the consquences, even if it disappoints their donors and puts money in a trial lawyer’s pocket. Because that’s the law.

By: Willie

Willie — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:14:37 +0000

The radical wing!

By: bhmhomeboy

bhmhomeboy — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:33:32 +0000

What exactly are “solid law-and-order Republicans”?

By: speculator

speculator — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:58:49 +0000

Just to clarify, I was saying Main might have appealed to the discomforted law-and-order Republicans, not the Skip Tucker wing. Obviously.

By: speculator

speculator — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:56:44 +0000

Shaw may be too liberal on many fronts for the Roy Moore/Tom Parker wing of the Republican party. He won’t pass their test on tax/constitutional reform and has a moderate record on criminal justice issues (has he voted to overturn one too many conviction while on the Court of Criminal Appeals).

Meanwhile, I have to wonder whether this makes it more likely that Doug McElvey will get in the race, as he was originally approaching candidacy from a moderate, appeal to all sides, candidate (a Lyons/Woodall/Harwood mold) rather than a civil justice idealogue, which is what Greg Shaw must at least pose as to receive the ACJRC endorsement. There is considerable discomfort from solid law-and-order Republicans with the Skip Tucker wing of the party, to which Jim Main might have appealed.

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:08:29 +0000

Dan,

Either the statement has not yet been released through the GOP or perhaps it will not be as it is something of “non-news.” Dunno. I got it from someone who knows Main.

By: Daily Dixie: Jim Main not running for Ala Supreme Court

Daily Dixie: Jim Main not running for Ala Supreme Court — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:29:50 +0000

[...] Danny has the press release. The best part: I have decided I can best serve my state and my governor by focusing my efforts on our complicated budgets, not campaign ballots. Therefore, I will not be a candidate for associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in the upcoming elections. [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:27:55 +0000

Where’d the press release come from? I didn’t get it.