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The Role of the State Attorney General-Harvard Law School-Fall 2021
Section 3 . 3
20 minutes

Articles describing the evolving positions of then Alabama Attorney General William Pryor and then Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore (2003 - 2004).

James E. Tierney

Upon the election of Alabama Attorney General Jeff Sessions to the United States Senate in 1996, William Pryor, now a federal judge, was a appointed to be the Attorney General of Alabama where he had been serving under Sessions as Solicitor General.  Pryor was immediately caught up in a number of controversies that posed fundamental ethical challenges.   These articles describe those challenges.

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