Anti-gay Alabama Chief Justice Moore heads to court this week

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press

By KIM CHANDLER, Associated Press · Sunday, September 25, 2016

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Chief Justice Roy S. Moore the fiery Deep South jurist has been here before.

Moore was removed as chief justice over a decade ago for refusing to obey a federal court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building. Moore faces removal from office again, this time on accusations that he urged 68 probate judges to refuse marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

The Court of the Judiciary, a state panel that disciplines judges, will hold what is expected to be a one-day trial-like proceeding on Wednesday to determine if Moore violated canons of judicial ethics with a January directive to probate judges. Moore in a Jan. 26 administrative order wrote that a 2015 order from the state Supreme Court to refuse marriage licenses to gay couples remained in “full force and effect.” The order came six months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled gays and lesbians had a fundamental right to marry and after a federal judge said Alabama should follow that decision.

“We fully expect Roy Moore to be removed from the bench. I think it is the only sanction that is appropriate,” Richard Cohen, head of the Southern Poverty Law Center which lodged the initial complaint against Moore. “This time he urged 68 probate judges to defy a court order,” Cohen said

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Read more: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/09/anti-gay-alabama-chief-justice-moore-heads-court-week/

[GoDawgs]

1. I hope they throw the book at him!

It would be really ironic if they threw 'the Good Book' at him....

[cab67]

2. Out of curiosity,

does anyone know of any other elected official thrown out of the same office twice?

[rurallib]

3. may he find a fair and impartial judge

that'll fuck him up

[BigDemVoter]

4. This is so terrible, and I'm ashamed to admit it.

But when I saw the first few words of the title, "Anti-Gay Alabama Chief Justice Moore", I had an unexpected hopeful feeling that it would be followed by "died" or "was involved in a gay sex scandal" or "had a heart attack" or "retired" or "died peacefully in his sleep". . . It's not so much that I wish any ill on Mr. Moore Esq. I really just wish he'd go away and shut his pie hole and quit telling everybody else how to lead a good life. Maybe this will finally do it.

[SCantiGOP]

5. If that was a multiple choice test

I vote for "involved in a gay (or bestiality) sex scandal."
Wouldn't that be sweet ??