The scandal is the latest embarrassment for Alabama, the U.S. manufacturing base for Mercedes-Benz and Airbus Group SE. House Speaker Mike Hubbard faces trial next month on a 23-count corruption indictment. Two of the past five governors went to prison. Any impeachment trial would be overseen by Chief Justice Roy Moore, who in 2003 was himself thrown out of office for installing a granite Ten Commandments monument in the Supreme Court; he regained his seat in 2012.
— Bloomberg Politics: Torrid tape imperils Alabama Governor, prison plan