Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore Suspended – Told Lower State Courts to Disregard U.S Supreme Court on Same-Sex Marriages
Justice Roy Moore, Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, on this day issued an order to lower Alabama courts directing them to ignore the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry. Moore was subsequently removed from the Alabama Supreme Court.
It was the second time that Moore had been removed from the Alabama Supreme Court, which is an elective office. In 2003 he was removed for ignoring a federal court decision directing him to remove a two-ton statue inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the grounds of the courthouse where the Alabama Supreme Court worked.
In December 2017 Moore ran in a special election for U.S. Senate, to fill the seat vacated by Jeff Session after he was appointed Attorney General by President Donald Trump. Moore’s campaign was plagued by sexual misconduct charges from years earlier. Moore lost to Democrat Doug Jones by a margin about 1.5 percentage points. Democrats had not won a Senate seat for decades. The election outcome was characterized as both a referendum on Moore’s character and on the policies of the Trump administration.
Read his book: Roy Moore, So Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, and the Battle for Religious Freedom (2009)