More on Roy Moore protege and ultra conservative Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker's heroic dissent in disastrous Alabama open records case:

"Demons are ice skating. Pigs are nesting in trees and soaring over mountains. And I, much to my surprise, agree with Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker, perhaps the court's most conservative jurist.

"Parker is a protégé of disgraced former Chief Justice Roy Moore. And I don't recall ever agreeing with either one of them about anything.

"Yet here I am, about to be quoting Parker extensively from his dissent in Lagniappe Weekly v. Huey Hoss Mack, Anthony Lowery, and Michael Gaull [a case involving public access to records in the closed investigation of the 2017 shooting of Jonathan Victor by Baldwin County Deputy Sheriff Matt Hunady].

"The majority of the justices ruled that the sheriff's department wasn't obligated to honor the record's request. They decided that the videos and other content Lagniappe sought under the Open Records Acts are exempt because they are 'investigative.'

"Parker comes to the rescue, at least in terms of the public dialogue. His dissent begins heavy on, to use his words, 'linguistic and syntactical' analysis.

"Then he gets to the key point: 'This Court has repeatedly emphasized that exceptions to the Open Records Act must be narrowly construed in favor of disclosure of records.'

"Four significant words: in favor of disclosure. Without disclosure, democracy is a blink away from being a dictatorship. That's because governments that don't disclose aren't being accountable. And virtually by definition, unaccountable governments aren't acting in the best interest of the people.

"Otherwise, why not be accountable?"