A progressive LGBTQ rights attorney has been charged in a federal indictment with lying about a phone call he made while under oath. The lie was given during a judicial inquiry into whether Carl Charles and others engaged in "judge shopping" while attempting to challenge Alabama's Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (VCAP).

Charles, an attorney at Lambda Legal based in Atlanta, Ga., was charged in an indictment unsealed on Monday in federal court in Montgomery. The charges come months after a judge sanctioned him and referred him for a criminal investigation.

In February, U.S. District Judges W. Keith Watkins, R. David Proctor and Jeffrey Beaverstock said in a report unsealed in March that the plaintiffs' attorneys suing Alabama attempted to manipulate which judge

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