The legal fight over Tommy Tuberville’s residency is not yet a trial over where he lived. It is a fight over whether anyone in an Alabama courtroom can ask that question before voters cast ballots.
That is the central consequence of the motion to dismiss filed by the attorney general’s office on behalf of Secretary of State Wes Allen. The filing does not ask Montgomery County Circuit Judge Brooke Reid to decide whether Tuberville satisfies Alabama’s seven-year residency requirement for governor. It asks her to rule that the court lacks authority to decide that question now.
That distinction matters…