This showed up in my email account yesterday:
Sloan,
On Monday March 6, I kick off my campaign for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. I would be honored to have your support at our event Monday at lunch time in Birmingham.
I am running for Chief because I firmly believe we have to push the energy and resources to the trial courts. My 17 years of experience make me uniquely qualified to guide that much needed massive cultural transformation. My website contains an outline of my objectives: www.sarahstewartforchiefjustice.com as well as other information regarding qualifications and my judicial values.
Please share this invitation with anyone you think would interested. I hope to see you there - and bring a friend!
Justice Sarah Stewart
At Justice Stewart's suggestion, I decided to look at her website, but there was no hyperlink for it in her advertisement, so copied and pasted sarahstewartforchiefjustice.com into my search bar and clicked Enter and her website came up.
Some excerpts:
Judicial ValuesAlabamians know they can count on Supreme Court Justice Sarah Stewart to strictly construe the law, never legislate from the bench, and enforce the law justly.“I am humbled by and take seriously the faith Alabama citizens placed in me by electing me to the trial court bench three times and then to the highest court in our State in 2018. I work daily to ensure the law is applied justly and consistently. I have done my best to serve Alabama with honor and integrity and hope to have the privilege to continue to serve in the role as Chief Justice.”“It is important for a justice to have strongly developed judicial values. My record reflects my conservative approach to dispensing justice impartially, ensuring Alabama’s body of jurisprudence evolves in strict accordance with conservative principles. My work as a Justice speaks for itself - I will never legislate from the bench and I will always fiercely defend your constitutional rights.”
sloan bashinsky <sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com>To: Sarah Stewart for Chief Justice info@sarahstewartforchiefjustice.com>Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 10:24:43 AM CSTSubject: Re: You're Invited: Campaign Kickoff PartyThanks for the invite, Justice Stewart.I frequently see Warren Lightfoot at the Birmingham Duplicate Bridge Club.The only Alabama Supreme Court Justice I knew personally was Sam Beatty - earlier in time he was my favorite law school professor at the University of Alabama School of Law.After graduating, I clerked for Hon. U.S. District Judge Clarence W. Allgood, in Birmingham.I practiced law in Birmingham for 12 years. Afterward, I got many chances to offer legal advice, for which I was paid nothing, nor did I ask or expect to be paid.In 2003, Fate, or God, steered me into local politics in Key West and the Florida Keys, where I ran many times for public office, as an Independent, and never came close to getting elected. My out of the box views were not well received by the left nor by the right.I kept telling them their political parties were secular religions, cults, and they needed to start trying to do what God wanted, instead of what they wanted; and to do that, they needed to be hearing directly from God, and not from their family, friends, political cronies, lawyers, ministers, etc.All sorts of red flags popped up when I read on your website that you support conservative values. That caused me to think your conservative values trump everything, and you are not emotionally, mentally and spiritually detached and independent, which I think is critical to being a judge.Sloan Bashinsky, J.D., LLM (Taxation)
I copied my email to some lawyers and humans I know, and received this back from a lady lawyer, who had worked in the U.S. Department of Justice when Bill Barr was President Donald Trump's Attorney General.
You all elect the Chief Judge? That’s insane - how many are running?
I replied:
Don't know how many.
Yep, it's crazy. I think all Supreme Court judges should be appointed by judges.Years ago, Republican Roy Moore got elected to be Chief Justice twice. At Alabama's law school Moore had been dubbed "Fruitcake" by the criminal law professor, Clinton McGhee. After graduating from Alabama's law school, McGhee went into the Army and prosecuted Nazis at Nuremberg.Moore is is a religious fanatic. There were accusations that, in his 20s and 30s, he hit on and pressured teenage girls. After he was elected the first time, he tacked the 10 Commandments on a wall in the Alabama Supreme Court building in Montgomery. A federal court removed him from office. He got elected again and started his religious stuff in the Supreme Court building again, and that time the other Supreme Court justices remove him.Moore ran for Jeff Sessions' empty Senate seat after Sessions became Trump's AG. That's when Moore's love of teen age girls made the headlines, with the girls, by then women, outing him. Alabama's other Senator, also Republican, said there was too much smoke fo there not to be fire, and Trump tried to get Moore to bow out, but he wouldn't. Shelby led a revolt than resulted in around 20,000 Republican write-in votes for people not on the ballot.That was about the margin of victory for the Democrat Doug Jones, who as the US Attorney in Birmingham had prosecuted and convicted several Atlanta Klansmen for bombing the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, and killing a bunch of black men and women and children, while they worshipped God.Moore was the darling of the Alabama redneck and evangelical Republicans. I think this lady Chief Justice candidate is a their darling, too. I will be surprised to hear from her, but if I do, I will let you and some other people know.Hope you and your hubby are doing well.Sloan
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