A new Alabama lawsuit seeks to knock U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville off the November ballot for governor, using his own words against him.
The complaint, filed Tuesday in Montgomery County Circuit Court by Brooke Lynn Dorgan and Justin Jude LeBlanc — two Alabama military veterans — invokes Alabama’s quo warranto statutes, a legal mechanism used to challenge whether someone is entitled to hold public office, and names Tuberville and Alabama Secretary of State Wesley Harrison Allen as defendants.
Legal analyst Joyce White Vance, a former U.S. attorney, highlighted the filing on X and called out one of its most striking passages.
“‘At a meeting of the Shoals Republican Club on August 3, 2019, Tuberville candidly conceded that he ‘has property’ in Alabama but is not an ‘everyday resident of Alabama,’ describing himself as a ‘carpetbagger,'” Vance wrote.
That admission is corroborated by contemporaneous reporting from Yellowhammer News, which quoted Tuberville saying, “Yes, I’m not an everyday resident of Alabama.”
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