In a filing on Tuesday, Moore’s lawyer, Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman, asked for U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan to resign from the case and for Hogan’s ruling, which granted Cohen’s request to transfer the case from Washington, D.C., to New York, to be reconsidered.
“To be honest and straightforward, given the manner in which this Court appeared to disrespect and disparage Plaintiff Moore at the outset of the hearing over whether he could still be referred to as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court — indeed a public figure such as a judge never loses his or her title — and then at the conclusion of the hearing read from an apparently pre-prepared order that was obviously penned even before the Court heard oral argument, it would appear that the Court not only prejudged Defendants’ motion to transfer, but also harbored extra-judicial bias toward Chief Justice Moore,” the motion states.
