Roy Moore, Private Citizen...

Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from office today for refusing to obey a federal court order to move his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the state courthouse.

The Alabama Court of the Judiciary unanimously imposed the harshest penalty possible after a one-day trial in which Moore said his refusal was a moral and lawful acknowledgment of God. Prosecutors argued that Moore's defiance, left unchecked, would harm the judicial system.

Posted by Editor at November 13, 2003 12:33 PM