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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 11:28 AM
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Alabama legal officials Rebel against Judge Roy Moore
Edited on Sat Aug-16-03 11:30 AM by Mari333
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) -- The attorney general and Alabama Supreme Court associate justices are distancing themselves from the state's chief justice, who has pledged to defy a federal court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state's judicial building.

Chief Justice Roy Moore said Thursday he had "no intention" of obeying the order to remove the monument from the building, where he moved it in the middle of the night in 2001. He has said that the Ten Commandments represent the moral foundation of American law.

Attorney General Bill Pryor said Thursday he would refuse to help Moore violate the court order, which could result in contempt fines of about $5,000 a day against the state. He declined to say what specific action he would take. ....



http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/08/15/ten.commandments.ap/index.html

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LEFTofLEFT Donating Member (381 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 11:56 AM
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1. If i was still in bama i would move that monument
Edited on Sat Aug-16-03 11:57 AM by LEFTofLEFT
A couple of people with the right tools could move the monument.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 12:09 PM
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2. Wonder if the obsessed anti-Southern loons that infest this place
will have any comment on this?
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