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When several Republican lawmakers proposed that party leaders step down when under felony indictment, Hubbard removed them from their committees and <ref name=newrepublic/> repeatedly refused to resign the Speakership.
When several Republican lawmakers proposed that party leaders step down when under felony indictment, Hubbard removed them from their committees and <ref name=newrepublic/> repeatedly refused to resign the Speakership.
District 6 state Representative [[Phil Williams (Alabama state representative)|Phil Williams]] of Huntsville was removed from the House Technology Committee after he helped to kill legislation that would have given Hubbard budgetary control over prosecutors in the state attorney general's office.<ref name=corruptgop/>
District 6 state Representative [[Phil Williams (Alabama state representative)|Phil Williams]] of [[Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]] was removed from the House Technology Committee after he helped to kill legislation that would have given Hubbard budgetary control over prosecutors in the state attorney general's office.<ref name=corruptgop/>
At the time of Hubbard's trial, [[impeachment]] proceedings began against Governor Bentley, and the [[conservative]] Roy Moore was suspended for a second time as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court regarding his opposition to county clerks being compelled to issue same-sex marriage licenses.<ref>{{cite web |author=Campbell Robertson|title=Scandals Embroil Alabama Governor, Speaker and Chief Justice |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/us/alabama-robert-bentley-michael-hubbard-roy-moore.html?_r=0 |publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=May 16, 2016 |pages=A9|accessdate=November 3, 2017}}</ref> In a special election on September 2017, Moore defeated Luther Strange in a bid for the Republican nomination to succeed [[U.S. Senator]] [[Jeff Sessions]], who had joined the [[Donald Trump|Trump]] administration as [[United States Attorney General]].
At the time of Hubbard's trial, [[impeachment]] proceedings began against Governor Bentley, and the [[conservative]] Roy Moore was suspended for a second time as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court regarding his opposition to county clerks being compelled to issue same-sex marriage licenses.<ref>{{cite web |author=Campbell Robertson|title=Scandals Embroil Alabama Governor, Speaker and Chief Justice |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/us/alabama-robert-bentley-michael-hubbard-roy-moore.html?_r=0 |publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=May 16, 2016 |pages=A9|accessdate=November 3, 2017}}</ref> In a special election on September 2017, Moore defeated Luther Strange in a bid for the Republican nomination to succeed [[U.S. Senator]] [[Jeff Sessions]], who had joined the [[Donald Trump|Trump]] administration as [[United States Attorney General]].