Amazing (and timely)
April 30, 2004 – 7:42 pmSo I’ve just finished Freethinkers, and coincidentally enough this story pops up in one of the blogs I read…. Roy Moore’s bid to be reinstated as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court has been rejected.
You may recall ex-Judge Moore from the news last year; he defied a federal court order to remove a four+ ton monument of the ten commandments from the state judicial rotunda. As a result, he was dismissed from the bench. His recent appeal (the one that just got blocked, hurray!) sounds like it was based on an argument that… let me check the story again… yeah, that’s it. It was apparently based on an argument that THE FEDERAL COURTS CAN’T RULE ON FIRST AMENDMENT CASES AT THE STATE LEVEL.
Right. Well, then. Interesting interpretation there. Maybe I’m misreading the story, but *whoa*.
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