Alabama judge ousted over refusal to move monument

Friday, November 14, 2003

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who became a hero to religious conservatives for refusing to remove his granite Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse, was thrown off the bench Thursday by a judicial ethics panel for having "placed himself above the law."

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