General Sessions Judge Casey Moreland is facing more calls for his resignation.
A Metro Council member has e-mailed every member of the council with a proposed resolution that calls for the embattled judge to step down.
Council Member Jacobia Dowell plans to file the resolution tomorrow and asked council members if they would like to add their signature.
The resolution is non-binding which means if it passes it would not force Moreland to step down.
Dowell's proposed resolution cites serious "concerns regarding the judicial conduct and ethical behavior" of Moreland.
It is the latest in a growing chorus of people calling for the judge's resignation.
State Senator Mike Bell said Moreland should resign earlier this month.
"He should either voluntarily step off the bench or there should be a movement to to remove him from the bench," Senator Bell said.
And on Friday nine Metro Council members signed a letter sent to Moreland's office.
It stated "we ask that you immediately step aside."
And expressed "deep concern that you are presiding over criminal cases while under investigation for serious allegations related to your official duties."
The Board of Judicial Conduct, which oversees the ethical behavior of judges took the unusual step of announcing it has opened an investigation into Moreland.
Thousands of text messages obtained by NewsChannel 5 Investigates reveal Moreland intervened in the traffic stop of a woman with whom he was having an affair last June.
And a Metro Police investigation into a woman's suicide last May brought up several disturbing allegations.
One is that Moreland had sex with a woman in his chambers in exchange for favorable treatment in her DUI case.
"She told me right then that she had sex with Casey Moreland in the chambers and that's what kept her out of jail," Roy Matlock said during an interview with Metro Police.
Matlock was talking about his friend Leigh Terry.
Police investigated her death last year and determined it was a suicide.
Council member Dowell's proposed resolution cites Moreland's current problems.
But it also lists a series of past concerns including a NewsChannel 5 story from several years ago about Moreland's employees and court officers "collecting salaries despite not appearing at work."
And a 2014 case in which Moreland overrode the mandatory 12 hour hold for a prominent developer arrested on domestic violence charges.
Moreland was reprimanded by the Board that Oversees Judges for intervening in that case.
The resolution could be voted on at next week's council meeting.
It is likely attorneys on the council will abstain because they have cases in Moreland's court.
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