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A Montgomery federal judge on Friday lifted the injunction preventing Alabama’s 2019 abortion ban from going into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, meaning abortions are now illegal in Alabama except in cases where the life of the mother is in danger. U.S. District Court Judge Myron Thompson’s order in Montgomery federal court said that the legal underpinning for the injunction “no longer exists” after the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, the defendant in the legal challenge to the Alabama law, was granted his...

On Easter Sunday, a federal judge ruled that Alabama cannot stop abortion facilities from killing unborn babies in elective abortions during the coronavirus outbreak. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson ruled that abortion facilities should be the ones to decide if an abortion is essential, and the state cannot close them – even during a national health crisis, the AP reports. Thompson issued a preliminary injunction, which expands his earlier ruling blocking the state from enforcing health care restrictions on abortion facilities. His initial ruling expired Monday. Similar to most states, Alabama is restricting all non-essential medical care during the pandemic....

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday questioned Alabama’s requirement for a transgender person to undergo full gender reassignment surgery before they can change the sex on their driver’s license, suggesting that a license that contradicts a person’s public appearance essentially marks them with a “scarlet letter T.” U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson held a hearing in the 2018 lawsuit filed by three transgender women seeking to change the gender on their state license. The American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing the plaintiffs, said the requirement to show proof of sex-altering surgery is an unconstitutional violation of...

The American Inquisition Has Begun By Chuck Baldwin Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon November 15, 2003 I was in attendance at Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's trial in Montgomery this past Wednesday and Thursday. "Trial" is not really the proper word, however. A better word is "inquisition." There was never a doubt that the "judges" had made up their minds to remove Chief Justice Moore from the bench before the proceedings ever began. They sat like wooden Indians throughout the trial, taking few notes and, with only one exception, making no comments, and asking no questions. Furthermore, Moore's...

Federal Judge Makes It Official -- America Now an Atheist Nation The issue isn't a granite stone with the Ten Commandments inscribed on it. Never has been. The issue is much more diverse and important than a piece of stone. The issue was best stated by none other than Federal Judge Myron Thompson, who said that the display of the stone containing the Ten Commandments (which also contains a host of other historical documents) is illegal. Thompson said the central, most important issue was this: "Can the state acknowledge God?" After asking the question, he went on to answer it....

The same federal judge who ordered the removal of the Ten Commandments monument from the lobby of the Alabama Judicial Building has thrown out a lawsuit brought by three Alabamans who claimed the moving of the Decalogue violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment. In his dismissal, Judge Myron Thompson claimed the result of the monument's removal did not establish a religion of nontheism, but rather supported neutrality concerning religion. "The empty space of nothingness in the rotunda of the Judicial Building is neither an endorsement of 'nontheistic belief' nor a sign of disrespect for Christianity or any other...

The granite monument of the Ten Commandments has been rolled out of the Alabama Supreme Court building in Montgomery. Chief Justice Roy Moore has been suspended. Yet, in his defeat there is victory. For Judge Moore's defiance exposed to all Americans the naked hostility of the court to any official expression of belief that we are a nation under God. His defiance revealed how far America has traveled from the Constitution of our Founding Fathers. We no longer see through a glass darkly. We can see clearly now. Under the Ninth and 10th Amendments, our Constitution reserved to the states...

The other Ten Commandments judge Devoted boyfriend that he was, Thomas Hinds frequently accompanied his girlfriend on her baby-sitting jobs, including those at the home of a young federal judge, Myron Thompson. That was 18 years ago, but the conductor and music director of the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra still prizes those baby-sitting dates for the friendship he developed with "one of the really fine people I know." "A conversation with Myron Thompson at times feels like an athletic event," said Hinds. "He is curious; he wants to know the details. 'What do you mean? How do you do that?' He...

Some supporters of Alabama's Ten Commandments monument are none too happy that the very same federal judge who had it removed will decide a lawsuit calling for its return, but it could be their last hope. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson is scheduled Tuesday in Montgomery to consider a lawsuit filed on behalf of a pastor and a Christian radio host. He denied the plaintiffs' request for an emergency restraining order to bring monument back into public view. The plaintiffs say the removal of the monument discriminates against and creates hostility toward Christians. A federal judge in Mobile threw...

<p>By Jan Fletcher, Faith Correspondent A seven-hour drive to Montgomery, Ala., Monday, brought one Campbellsville man to the very center of the national controversy over public display of the Ten Commandments.</p> <p>Ricky Cox, a dentist and former state representative, made the decision Monday morning to leave for the showdown at the Alabama Judicial Building after his office closed at 5 p.m. He was back at work at 10 a.m. Tuesday, after participating in a vigil for three hours -- from midnight to 3 a.m. -- alongside 150 protesting citizens. Protesters vowed peaceful resistance to stop a court order to remove a 5,300-pound monument to the Ten Commandments.</p>

(CNSNews.com) - A suit calling for the Ten Commandments monument in the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery to be returned to public view will be decided by the same federal judge who had it removed on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson has agreed to hear arguments on Tuesday from a lawsuit filed on behalf of a pastor and a Christian radio talk show host that the forced removal of the 2.5-ton granite display violated their constitutional guarantee of freedom of religion. "I'm very encouraged," said Brian Chavez-Ochoa, the lawyer who filed the suit. "I think Judge Thompson will allow...

Somehow it doesn't seem fair that Judge Roy Moore should have the entire Ten Commandments spotlight to himself. There are, after all, three judges and three plaintiffs who think that God should be removed from public life in America. They've now seen fit to make their private thoughts the law of the land. Let's take a look at them. And as Dr. James Dobson has called for Christians to go to Montgomery, these unelected oligarchs may soon find themselves exposed to the same light of day Judge Moore has been. Judge Myron Thompson, the original district-court judge, has in the...

Civil Disobedience Is Consistent With Christian Conduct And With American History By Chuck Baldwin Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon August 26, 2003 While Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore's refusal to remove a Ten Commandments display from the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery is not, in strict terms, civil disobedience, many people see it that way. Actually, the federal judge who ordered the monument's removal, Myron Thompson, and those who support him are guilty of breaking the law! The U.S. Constitution prohibits the federal government from interfering with the state's or the individual's right to express or...

Showdown in Montgomery By Chuck Baldwin Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon August 22, 2003 I was privileged to be in attendance at a rally in front of the Alabama Supreme Court building Wednesday evening where hundreds of concerned citizens had gathered to express their support for Judge Roy Moore's decision to ignore a federal judge's order to remove a display of the Ten Commandments from the building. Speakers included Alan Keyes, Rick Scarborough, and Patrick Mahoney. This case is just now beginning to draw media attention and, unfortunately, has yet to draw the attention and, yes, outrage, of...

That should pis off those rednecks! They can't stop me now! LEFT Mon Nov 18, 2:17 PM ET. Southern Poverty Law Center Director Morris Dees, left, discusses a ruling by U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson concerning the Ten Commandments monument on display at the State Judicial Building in Montgomery, Ala. At Dees' right is SPLC attorney Richard Cohen. (AP Photo/Dave Martin). RIGHT The Ten Commandments monument designed by Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is pictured at the State Judicial Building in Montgomery, Ala., in this Aug 7, 2001, file photo. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson ruled Monday,...