Ala. Supreme Court Rejects Moore's Challenge
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
AP
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Alabama Supreme Court (search) rejected Roy Moore's
(search) request to cancel the appointment of a seven-member replacement court
to hear his appeal of his ouster as chief justice.
The court did not explain its reasoning in the unanimous order issued Tuesday.
All eight justices decided last month that they should not hear Moore's appeal
of his removal from office. To replace the Supreme Court, a clerk drew names of
retired judges from a box to form a special seven-member Supreme Court to hear
Moore's appeal.
Moore's attorneys argued that the process was improper. Attorney General Bill
Pryor such courts have been created five times since 1973 when justices stepped
aside from hearing a case.
The Alabama Court of the Judiciary removed Moore from office last year for
violating ethics rules by not obeying a federal court order to remove his Ten
Commandments monument (search) from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial
Building.
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"This would be the best of all possible worlds,
if there were no religions in it."
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