In 2003 he was removed from that elected office by an Alabama state judiciary panel for refusing to remove a stone monument of the Ten Commandments from a state court building...
...since then, he's twice attempted and failed to be elected Alabama's governor.
But this election he his running for his old office: Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, and he has won the Republican nomination by besting incumbent Chief Justice Chuck Malone and former state Attorney General Charlie Graddick in the Republican primaries...
...Moore will face Democrat Harry Lyons in November.
In a state where Romney is currently leading Obama 59%-34%, Moore now leads Lyons 54%-33%...
...even the Alabama AFL-CIO is backing Moore.
Moore says he will not make an issue of a Ten Commandments monument again:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/hes-back-the-ten-commandments-judge/?cat_orig=politics
...since then, he's twice attempted and failed to be elected Alabama's governor.
But this election he his running for his old office: Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, and he has won the Republican nomination by besting incumbent Chief Justice Chuck Malone and former state Attorney General Charlie Graddick in the Republican primaries...
...Moore will face Democrat Harry Lyons in November.
In a state where Romney is currently leading Obama 59%-34%, Moore now leads Lyons 54%-33%...
...even the Alabama AFL-CIO is backing Moore.
Moore says he will not make an issue of a Ten Commandments monument again:
“To restore the monument would be to deflect from the true issue, an acknowledgement of the sovereignty of God,” he told WND. “It would certainly confuse the public.”
But he said if elected he would be true to the foundational documents of the United States, its Constitution and the Alabama Constitution, which acknowledges God.
“Without the acknowledgement of God we have no basis for a moral law, and for the foundation of the Constitution,” he said.
He said it would be a “significant statement” for voters to return him to office, “knowing what I stand for.”
http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/hes-back-the-ten-commandments-judge/?cat_orig=politics