Alabama commandments judge fights ouster.Former Alabama Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Alabama is the highest court in the state of Alabama. The court consists of a Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices, elected in partisan elections for staggered six year terms. Chief Justice Roy Moore For the baseball player, see . Roy Moore is a controversial American jurist and politician noted for his refusal, as the elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from the courthouse despite orders from a federal court is appealing his removal from the state's high court. On Nov. 13, the Alabama Court of the Judiciary unanimously voted to remove Moore as chief justice because of his refusal to obey a federal court ruling to remove a Ten Commandments Ten Commandments or Decalogue [Gr.,=ten words], in the Bible, the summary of divine law given by God to Moses on Mt. Sinai. They have a paramount place in the ethical system in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. monument from the state Judicial Building's rotunda rotunda In Classical and Neoclassical architecture, a building or room that is circular in plan and covered with a dome. The Pantheon is a Classical Roman rotunda. The Villa Rotonda at Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio, is an Italian Renaissance example. . Moore's appeal will be heard by a seven-member panel of retired Alabama judges. Several of the Religious Right groups that have supported Moore's actions are now recruiting candidates to run for state offices, including three seats on the state's high court. Jim Zeigler, one of the attorneys who represented Moore told the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. that there are "a number of conservative Christians active in the Ten Commandments movement who want to elect bold conservative Christians to Alabama offices." The Rev. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Washington-based Christian Defense Foundation and a strident Moore supporter, said his group wants the Ten Commandments to be a "major campaign issue." |
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