The Human Rights Campaign is asking for Judge Roy Moore‘s emails to determine if he unethically worked with external groups to stop same-sex marriage.

“Did Roy Moore Use State Resources to Coordinate Third Party Attacks on Marriage Equality?” That’s the question the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is asking now, about the Alabama Chief Justice.

But HRC wants to find out if Moore “concocted an organized plan to stop same-sex marriages by enlisting twoÂ anti-LGBT groups â€“the Alabama Policy Institute (API) and the Alabama Citizens Action Plan (ALCAP) –Â to file emergency petitions to the AlabamaÂ Supreme Court.”

The nation’s largest LGBT civil rights group is also wondering, very publicly, if “Justice Moore violated judicial codes of conduct byÂ encouraging probate judges to deny LGBT couples their constitutional right to marry.”

API and ALCAP filed an emergency motion to have the Alabama State Supreme Court intervene and halt the issuance of all marriage licenses to same-sex couples across the state. While it’s unclear how the Court could take that action, effectively overturning a federal court ruling, that is the goal of the two groups.

HRC is using its resources to investigate any possible wrongdoing.

“HRC Alabama has requested to publicly inspect Mooreâ€™s email communications containing the following terms: gay; lesbian; homosexual; marriage; or Granade,” the group states. “HRC Alabama has also requested the phone recordsÂ from January 23, 2015 to present.”

â€œWe want to know whether Justice MooreÂ inappropriatelyÂ usedÂ the power of his officeÂ to direct legal strategy in a case before his own court,â€ said HRC Alabama State Director R. Ashley Jackson. â€œJudge Moore is no stranger toÂ questionable legal ethics and Alabamians have the right to know whether their chief justice has acted inappropriately once again. We ask Justice Moore to come clean and voluntarily hand over these files.â€

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Hat tip: ABA Journal