Another loss for Roy Moore

Roy Moore was handed his biggest setback today as the Alabama Court of the Judiciary removed Moore from the office as the state Supreme Court's cheif justice for his refusal to obey a Federal Court order to remove a 2.5 ton granite monument to the Ten Commandments from the state rotunda. Last week, the US Supreme Court refused to hear Moore's appeal of the Federal Court decision.

Moore does have the option of appealing his ousting to the Alabama state Supreme Court, but it's doubtful that he'd win there - it was his colleagues on the state Supreme Court who had previously voted that the monument be moved in order to comply with the Federal Court ruling and then suspended Moore from his position until the ethics case could be heard by the Court of the Judiciary.

Prosecutors are expected to next seek Moore's disbarment over his failure to follow the rule of law.

There is some concern that by ousting him from his Supreme Court position that it may leave Moore open to run for governor in the next election - which would be pretty disasterous for Alabama should he win. Sadly, the man has a fair amount of support and his supporters are exceedingly loyal.

My favourite quote from the MSNBC story though, had to be this one:

Greg Sealy, head of the Sitting at His Feet Fellowship in Montgomery, an inner-city mission, said Thursday was the “darkest day” he had seen in America since he moved to the United States from Barbados 23 years ago.

“They stole my vote. The judiciary stole my vote. I voted for Roy Moore,” he said.

I suspect he now understand a bit better how Democrats have felt since the US Supreme Court appointed Bush as or leader. At least in the case of Moore, the Court of the Judiciary had good cause for their actions. Moore has no understanding of the separation of church and state, and has consistantly held himself to be above the law - including the Constitution. Hopefully, if Moore does try to run for elected office again in the future, the people of Alabama will realize that these traits make him manifestly unsuited to public service and that he should be left to find whatever employment is available to him in the private sector.

Posted by thorswitch at November 13, 2003 05:06 PM | TrackBack