Judge Roy Moore has been described as the Ayatollah of Alabama
By Bob Walsh
Roy Moore was, until Friday, the Chief Justice of the Alabama court system. He has had his issues with the feds, including refusal to take down the Ten Commandments posted obviously in the court house. He has also refused to issue wedding licenses to gay couples and informed inferior courts in Alabama that they were still bound by a state court order to deny same sex-couple marriage licenses in defiance of federal court rulings. He is a fundamentalist Christian bible-thumper, as one might expect.
In any event on Friday the nine members of the Alabama Court of the Judiciary effective removed him from office. His current term turns out in 2019, at which time he will be too old to serve under Alabama law.
The speaker of the state House of Representatives, a Republican, was just removed from office for criminal ethics violations. Governor Robert Bentley may be impeached over a scandal involving a top aide of his.
Moore's lawyer said he will appeal his discipline to the State Supreme Court.
He was kicked out of office in 2013 over the Ten Commandments Monument, but was reelected to office shortly thereafter.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has described Moore as the Ayatollah of Alabama and asserted that he is acting in an ecclesiastical role and not a judicial one.
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