After suspension, what’s next for Alabama chief justice?
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore built his career on defiance, and it has cost him his job — twice.
A disciplinary panel that removed him from office 13 years ago over a Ten Commandments monument suspended him Friday for the remainder of his term for defying the federal courts on gay marriage.
The court ruled that Moore wrongly urged 68 state probate judges “to stop complying with binding federal law” when he told them in January that they remained bound by a 2015 state court order to refuse marriage licenses to gay couples.
Long a symbol of the culture wars after his Ten Commandments fight, the outspoken Republican judge is now focused on appealing his suspension. He said he doesn’t know what will happen next.