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This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. In 1774, a young James Madison, while traveling through Culpeper County in Virginia – well before he became our fourth president – passed by a jail where a number of Baptist preachers had been incarcerated for nothing more than preaching without an official government license. One of these "criminals" preached from a window of the jail to any who would listen. Madison would never forget the dedication of those brave preachers – nor the audacity of the officials who had jailed them.

FAITH UNDER FIRE Ten Commandments stunner: Feds lying at Supreme Court Government tells modern visitors it's Bill of Rights being honored Every argument before the U.S. Supreme Court and every opinion the judges deliver comes in the presence of the Ten Commandments, God's law given to Moses on a fire-scorched mountain, and now represented for the United States in the very artwork embedded in the high court structure. In today's world of revisionist history, the proof comes through the work of a California pastor who visited the Supreme Court building recently when he was in Washington and was surprised that...

Judge Roy Moore debuts as columnist Newssite welcomes man who staunchly defended Ten Commandments -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 26, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Judge Roy Moore, the former Alabama chief justice who was ousted from office after battling for the right to display the Ten Commandments in the state courthouse, debuts today as an exclusive columnists for WorldNetDaily. "We are deeply honored to welcome Judge Moore to WorldNetDaily," said WND Editor Joseph Farah. "He has shown the nation he is a rarity in public service – a man of principle who's not afraid to acknowledge God and defend...

When academics relay their understanding of religion to the rest of us, they offer interpretations that the religiously observant may find a tad bizarre. “Religion has a certain kind of legitimacy among many people and in many parts of the world that secular life simply doesn’t have,” philosophy professor Roger S. Gottlieb explained in an interview with Jennifer Howard that appeared in the June 23rd issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. “In Madagascar, where the fishermen were dynamiting to get fish and destroying the coral reef and fish stock, when the government said, ‘Don’t do it,’ they kept doing...

Alabama 2006-06-07 00:46:53 GMT (i) = incumbent = winner = runoff Governor - - Dem Primary 197 of 3240 Precincts Reporting - 6.08% Max Runoff Cands=2 Name Party Votes Pct Baxley, Lucy Dem 15,122 53.46 Siegelman, Don Dem 12,632 44.66 Mack, Katherine Dem 132 .47 Copeland, Joe Dem 124 .44 Mathis, Nathan Dem 124 .44 Potts, James Dem 81 .29 Lyon, Harry Dem 69 .24 Governor - - GOP Primary 197 of 3240 Precincts Reporting - 6.08% Name Party Votes Pct Riley, Bob (i) GOP 26,457 69.55 Moore, Roy GOP 11,581 30.45 Lieutenant Governor - - GOP Primary 105...

Governor's races lead hefty primary ballots Hard-fought campaigns in hands of voters now Tuesday, June 06, 2006 By BILL BARROW Capital Bureau MONTGOMERY -- It's Alabama politics' version of the Final Four. The top contenders for Alabama governor made their last pitches to the electorate Monday, setting up today's primary contests, which will likely determine who will advance to the general election in November. Gov. Bob Riley, his Republican challenger Roy Moore and Democratic Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley each took to the air, with fly-arounds that allowed them to touch down in every corner of the state, including Mobile. Baxley's...

Down to the wire: Candidates make final push Sunday, June 04, 2006 By BILL BARROW Capital Bureau MONTGOMERY -- The four leading candidates for Alabama governor are all on the road this weekend, scrambling to make last-minute pitches for votes in Tuesday's party primaries that most forecasters say will come down to a simple function of turnout. It's an axiom political strategists use often, because it's true to the point of being elementary: The candidate who gets the best effort and the most votes out of his or her core supporters usually wins. Yet with two contested primaries this year,...

Sitting justices lead big in cash Friday, June 02, 2006 By BRENDAN KIRBY Staff Reporter If Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker and his allies are going to succeed in their quest to upend incumbents in Tuesday's Republican primary, they will have to do it despite a huge fund-raising deficit, according to campaign finance reports. The latest reports, which were due Thursday, provide the last peek at the candidates' contributions and expenses before Tuesday's voting. The reports cover all contributions received between the time the last filing period ended -- 45 days before the primary -- and 10 days before...

MONTGOMERY, Ala.--Most politicians would kill for--or spend millions of dollars to acquire--the name recognition Roy Moore has in Alabama. Not necessarily the kind of name recognition, mind you. Just the level. That's because here, and across the country, he's known not just as Roy Moore, but as "Roy Moore, Ten Commandments Judge"--the Southern Baptist-cum-chief justice of Alabama who defied a federal court order to remove his 2 1/2-ton monument to the Commandments from the state courthouse, and lost his job as a result. It's a moniker that wins him automatic support in some quarters, and deafens ears before he even...

Former Chief Justice Roy Moore waited until the final three weeks of the Republican campaign for governor to air his first TV commercial, which gives many voters their first glimpse of the trial that cost him his judgeship. Moore, campaigning in Enterprise on Wednesday, said he waited because he lags behind Republican Gov. Bob Riley in fundraising and he wanted to get the most impact from his money by hitting the air close to the June 6 primary election. "We are lower on money. We don't have a tenth of what my opponent does," he told the Republican Women of...

Republican incumbents challenged from right Chief justice and three associate justices face an ideological offensive for control of the court Sunday, May 14, 2006 By BRENDAN KIRBY Staff Reporter Several Republican justices on the Alabama Supreme Court, which one political expert considers the most conservative in modern history, find themselves under assault this election year -- from the right. Justice Tom Parker is challenging Chief Justice Drayton Nabers in the June 6 GOP primary, and a like-minded slate is taking on three other Republican incumbents. It is an internecine battle for control of the court that muddies the traditional trial...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Roy Moore's unsuccessful fight to display the Ten Commandments and keep his job as Alabama's chief justice made him a national hero to religious conservatives three years ago. But Moore isn't being treated like a hero in the state's topsy-turvy race for governor. He trails Governor Bob Riley 2 to 1 in the polls and has an even wider gap in fund-raising as they head toward the Republican primary June 6. It's a scenario that seemed unlikely in 2003, when Moore rose to national prominence and Riley took a body blow from voters who rejected his proposed...

Poll: Riley builds big lead over Moore Sunday, April 16, 2006 By BILL BARROW Capital Bureau MONTGOMERY -- Gov. Bob Riley has stormed to a 44-point lead over challenger Roy Moore in the battle for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, according to a new statewide survey. The Press-Register/University of South Alabama poll showed Riley with 64 percent support of self-identified Republican primary voters. Moore, the ousted Alabama Supreme Court chief justice, had 20 percent. The findings indicate that the Republican contest is becoming a cakewalk for the incumbent with seven weeks left until the June 6 vote. "These poll results suggest...

Moore says mad cow timing odd Saturday, March 25, 2006 KIM CHANDLER News staff writer MONTGOMERY - Republican gubernatorial candidate Roy Moore said Friday it was a "strange coincidence" that mad cow disease was found in Alabama just as government officials want to start an animal-identification system. Moore is opposed to a national tracking system that would give identification numbers to farm animals and to a bill pending in the Alabama Legislature that would authorize Alabama to start its own tracking system. "It's a strange coincidence that we have a case of mad cow disease at the same time the...

Do you remember the last time you heard of a high-ranking elected official invoking the name of Jesus Christ in his inaugural address, explaining that the Lord is the only source of life, law, and liberty? You have heard of innumerable judges and their rulings which appear to legitimize sin and progressively banish God from the public square; but when was the last time you read of a Supreme Court justice using Scripture in a court opinion to explain and defend the biblical roots of the common law and our constitutional system of government? And can you think of one...

Endorse Moore Back in October, I wrote a piece entitled "Return of a Hero" (on the GOP Insight Blog) about the new candidacy for Governorship of the State of Alabama by Judge Roy Moore. Judge Moore is a champion of religious freedom against the Unelected Communazi Religion Gestapo of the ACLU/Southern Bolshevik Law Center. I along with thousands of others, stood with him in August and September of 2003, when he fought for the freedom of religion of America with the Ten Commandments Monument against an unlawful and tyrannical Federal Court Order to remove it. I was also there on...

estern Area Republican Club of Jefferson County, Alabama ******Judge Roy Moore to be our next speaker ****** Candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, the Honorable Roy Moore, will be our speaker at our January 16th, 2006 meeting at 11:30 A.M., at the Home Plate Diner, 2780 Allison-Bonnett Memorial Drive in Hueytown. Visitors are welcome, and no reservations are needed. This is an opportunity to meet and hear Judge Moore, and to buy the book "So Help Me God" and have it autographed for you. There will be no other form of fund-raising at this meeting.We will have an...

In 1997, a vicious thug entered the home of a pregnant Alabama woman. He raped and repeatedly stabbed her, then fled, leaving her to die in a house with three other children. Police acted swiftly and caught the attacker, Renaldo Adams, literally red-handed with blood. After a fair trial, Adams was convicted of rape and murder and given the death penalty. It took the jury less than 30 minutes to recommend his execution. As an assistant attorney general under then Attorney General (now U.S. Sen.) Jeff Sessions, I helped prosecute Adams and was satisfied the Alabama jury chose the punishment...

TRINITY CHAPEL in suburban Atlanta’s Cobb County is hardly the picture of a revolutionary outpost. It’s a stylishly modern Church of God—a denomination that, though conservative, is certainly mainstream. Parishioners are drawn from a community whose average income is a comfortable 35 percent above the national norm, whose tree-lined country roads intersect McMansion subdivisions....Reconstruction—an obscure but increasingly potent theology whose top exponents hold that Christian crusaders must conquer and convert the world, by the sword if necessary, before Jesus will return....Reconstruction has slowly absorbed, congregation by congregation, the conservative Presbyterian Church in America (not to be confused with the progressive...

This is an email forward. Email says it is written by Judge Roy Moore, who was removed from the bench for refusing to remove the 10 Commandments from his courtroom wall. Very well written and speaks the truth. God bless Roy Moore! Begin copy: The following is a poem written by Judge Roy Moore from Alabama. Judge Moore was sued by the ACLU for displaying the Ten Commandments in his courtroom foyer. He has been stripped of his judgeship and now they are trying to strip his right to practice law in Alabama. The judge's poem sums it up quite...

Baxley running for governor Thursday, January 05, 2006 By BILL BARROW Capital Bureau MONTGOMERY -- Pointing to her rural upbringing, Christian faith, life as a single parent and nearly four decades as a public employee, businesswoman and elected official, Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley on Wednesday announced her bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. "This state is made up of everyday people whose families work hard to provide the necessities of life, who try to afford health care and who try to protect their children from the evils of society," Baxley told about 300 campaign workers and supporters gathered in a...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The cast: A Republican incumbent who alienated his base with a proposal to raise taxes. A chief justice who lost his job over his Ten Commandments stand. A former governor under indictment. A lieutenant governor who helped her ex-husband run for governor. The show: Alabama's gubernatorial primaries of 2006. In a state where George C. Wallace and James E. "Big Jim" Folsom made races for governor a must-watch event on the political stage, the current campaigns may be every bit as memorable. On the Republican side, ousted Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, the Ten Commandments defender,...

Riley says Moore sought protection for monument Wednesday, December 21, 2005 By BILL BARROW Capital Bureau MONTGOMERY -- During the peak of public protests over removal of the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Judicial Building, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore sent an emissary who asked Gov. Bob Riley to call out Alabama National Guard troops to protect the 5,280-pound rock, according to the governor. "That's where Roy and I parted ways," Riley told the Mobile Register of his chief opponent in the upcoming 2006 Republican primary for governor. Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Terry Butts, who came to...

Moore's wife seeks donations in letter Would help him become a `spokesperson for Christian conservatism' Tuesday, December 20, 2005 KIM CHANDLER News staff writer MONTGOMERY - The wife of Republican candidate for governor Roy Moore is asking supporters for a Christmas campaign gift to help her husband become a "national spokesperson for Christian conservatism." Kayla Moore wrote in an e-mail that Christmas was an appropriate time to begin their campaign "to return morality to our country and God to our public square." Her husband is opposed by people who want to promote gay marriage and "remove Christ from Christmas," she...

A little-known state senator from Slocomb is moving toward a race for the 2006 Republican nomination for governor, entering a field that includes Gov. Bob Riley and Roy Moore. Though she has said only that she is considering running, Harri Anne Smith, 43, has created a campaign committee and cashed the check on a major donation from Mignon C. Smith, 74-year-old Avondale Mills heiress and longtime Republican Party promoter. Wallace Malone, the longtime CEO of SouthTrust, has a long-standing relationship with Sen. Smith. John Grenier, another prominent Republican, has sent out letters advising donors that she would be calling. And...

Just because there is no 2008 presidential candidate you're excited about, doesn't mean you can't be involved in politics. Just because there is no congressional candidate you can support in 2006, doesn't mean you can't be involved in politics. Just because there are so few righteous men and women running for office in America today, doesn't mean you are supposed to sit at home and drop out. In fact, it's more important than ever that Americans who revere the Constitution and who understand the moral crisis we face get involved in politics. Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? One important...

An election for every American -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: October 14, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Just because there is no 2008 presidential candidate you're excited about, doesn't mean you can't be involved in politics. Just because there is no congressional candidate you can support in 2006, doesn't mean you can't be involved in politics. Just because there are so few righteous men and women running for office in America today, doesn't mean you are supposed to sit at home and drop out. In fact, it's more important than ever that Americans who revere the Constitution and who understand the...

Gov. Bob Riley, who on Saturday announced his bid for a second term, holds a 19-point lead over ousted Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore among likely voters in the 2006 Republican gubernatorial primary, the results of a new statewide survey suggest. The Mobile Register-University of South Alabama poll showed Riley with 44 percent and Moore with 25 percent. The remainder were undecided. The results mark a dramatic turnaround from January, when a similar Register-USA poll found Moore leading the governor 43-35 in a hypothetical GOP contest. The findings also defy what was once the prevailing political wisdom in Alabama:...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was fired in 2003 for disobeying a federal order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from a courthouse, said on Monday he would be a candidate for governor of Alabama in 2006. Moore, a fundamentalist Christian from northern Alabama who supports school prayer and opposes gay marriage, pledged to fight against higher taxes, tighten restrictions on illegal immigrants and improve education if elected. "It is a crucial time to run for office when rights and liberties are being eroded, taxes climb, the education of our children declines and morality...

The Republican race for Alabama governor will take shape in the coming week, with ousted state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore and incumbent Gov. Bob Riley expected to announce their candidacies and set up a classic battle between the GOP's two cornerstones: religious conservatives and business groups. Moore has scheduled an announcement about his gubernatorial plans today in his hometown of Gadsden. Riley is having a 61st birthday party Saturday in Birmingham, where many of his supporters expect him to kick off a re-election campaign. For months, Moore has been saying that he was praying about whether to run...

Democratic Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley may not be the only woman running for governor next year. Republican state Sen. Harri Anne Smith says she's seriously considering entering the race. "Over the next couple of months, I'll be traveling the state and meeting with party people and people in the community," she said. Smith, R-Slocomb, said she is so serious that she has had polling done, and she expects to make a decision before the end of the year. No Republican has officially announced yet for the 2006 governor's race, but Gov. Bob Riley and former Chief Justice Roy Moore are...

Lyn Stuart seeking re-election as associate justice Friday, August 12, 2005 By BILL BARROW Capital Bureau MONTGOMERY -- Republican Lyn Stuart has announced that she will seek a second term as associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. The Atmore native and former Baldwin County judge becomes the second member of the high court to announce another run in 2006 after having opposed former Chief Justice Roy Moore's efforts to keep a Ten Commandments monument in the Alabama Judicial Building. Champ Lyons of Magnolia Springs announced his intentions to run for another term earlier this spring. Former Justice Jean Brown...

Siegelman calls for tougher sex offender penalties Saturday, July 23, 2005 By NADIA MOHANDESSI Staff Reporter Former Gov. Don Siegelman called for the Alabama Legislature to toughen a sexual offender bill Friday afternoon and include mandatory castration and the death penalty for persons convicted of violent sex crimes against children under 12. "An ankle bracelet is not going to stay on if a sexual predator wants it off," Siegelman said. "The Legislature has got to get serious about protecting Alabama's children or go home." Many observers expect Siegelman to announce his intention to run for governor again, though no official...

Justice Champ Lyons to seek second six-year term Lyons voted to comply with order to remove Ten Commandments monument Friday, July 08, 2005 By BILL BARROW Capital Bureau MONTGOMERY -- Alabama Supreme Court Associate Justice Champ Lyons has announced that he will seek another term on the state's highest appellate court, potentially providing another measure of ousted Chief Justice Roy Moore's electoral influence over the court he once led. A seven-year veteran of the all-Republican court, Lyons will run for his second six-year term in 2006. The longtime Montgomery and Mobile attorney-turned-jurist has served on the nine-member panel since his...

Howard Phillips, Chairman of The Conservative Caucus, will be joined by Stephen Peroutka (“Face the Truth”), Dr. Alan Keyes (The Declaration Foundation), Michael Peroutka (Founder, Institute on the Constitution), and Jim Clymer (Chairman, Constitution Party National Committee), and others at an 11:30 A.M., Wednesday, July 13 news conference in the President’s Room at the University Club (1135 16th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036), promoting the nomination of “Ten Commandments Judge” Roy Moore to be a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Phillips has been active in previous Supreme Court battles: (a) in opposition to the appointment of...

NEWS RELEASE For immediate release July 1, 2005 Contact: Charles Orndorff 703-938-9626 PRESIDENT BUSH SHOULD NOMINATE "TEN COMMANDMENTS JUDGE" ROY MOORE TO THE SUPREME COURT Vienna, VA. "President Bush should nominate former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore to replace Sandra Day O'Connor in the U.S. Supreme Court", Howard Phillips, Chairman of The Conservative Caucus, said today. "Sandra Day O'Connor's appointment by Ronald Reagan was a foreseeable disaster," Phillips continued. "As I pointed out in 1981, Mrs. O'Connor was a pro-abortion member of the Arizona State Senate and a liberal judge on the Arizona Court of Appeals. She was...

"All told this Court's jurisprudence leaves courts, governments, and believers and nonbelievers alike confused--an observation that is hardly new." With these words Justice Clarence Thomas accurately described the Supreme Court's latest efforts in McCreary County v. ACLU and Van Orden v. Perry to determine whether public displays of the Ten Commandments on state property are consistent with the U.S. Constitution. In McCreary County, the court ruled 5-4 that the display of the Ten Commandments was unconstitutional under the Lemon test because they found a "predominantly religious purpose," i.e., to acknowledge the one true God. In Van Orden, faced with a...

...We need to restore the original definitions of "law," "establishment," and "religion" in the First Amendment. A monument or display could never be a "law," the mere posting or installation of it is not an "establishment," and the recognition of God by the public display of the Ten Commandments is not "religion." After all, the original definition of the word "religion" -- the duties we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging those duties -- which was recognized by the Supreme Court years ago, acknowledged God and a higher law. ...[I]t should be clear that, as Justice Antonin...

Judge Ray Moore, the central figure in the losing battle to keep the Ten Commandments posted at the Alabama State Courthouse, says he may run for Alabama governor. He also has some tough words to say about the two Supreme Court decisions on the posting of the Decalogue in public places. Appearing on Hannity and Colmes Monday, Moore said, "There is a lot of talk. I've been asked many times to run, and I am seriously considering it. I'm praying about it, and I'll make my decision sometime in the fall." He added that God had opened the door for...

Wallace to run for Baxley's job Friday, June 24, 2005 By SALLIE OWEN Capital Bureau MONTGOMERY -- Public Service Commissioner George Wallace Jr., son of two previous governors, said he is running for lieutenant governor in the Republican primary next June. A recent survey indicates he has unusually high support among labor and minority voters for a GOP candidate, so Wallace said he would "strengthen the party's ticket." Despite the position's reduced influence, Wallace, 53, said there is room for him to make an impact. "The lieutenant governor can be more proactive and innovative," he said. The office's primary duty...

Former Rep. Nathan Mathis to run for governor 6/21/2005, 6:06 p.m. CT By PHILLIP RAWLS The Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Former state Rep. Nathan Mathis announced Tuesday he will run for governor on a gambling platform. And he is doing it by taking a gamble that has traditionally been a loser for Alabama politicians — running as an independent. If elected, Mathis said he will try to bring casinos to Alabama and would tax them to help fund health care, prisons and state troopers. Mathis, who served three terms in the Alabama House as a Democrat from Newton,...

WASHINGTON -- As Republican strategists weigh the party's prospects for 2006 and 2008, they are increasingly worried about a political confrontation with Roy S. Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who became a hero to religious conservatives when he refused to follow a federal court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state's judicial building.

Judge again rules against McGinley, for Republicans Lawyer for disqualified candidate says tactic may be used against Roy Moore Thursday, June 09, 2005 By BRENDAN KIRBY Staff Reporter A federal judge in Mobile this week re-affirmed the Alabama Republican Party's right to kick a radio talk show host off its primary ballot last year, a ruling the plaintiffs' attorney warned could set up an attack against Roy Moore. Kelly McGinley, whom the GOP barred from running for the state school board, sued the party, the secretary of state's office and elections officials in Mobile and Baldwin counties. Three Mobile County...

Riley vs. Moore showdown By Steve Flowers As mentioned last week, two Democrats, Don Siegelman and Lucy Baxley, have geared up for the 2006 Governor's Race. They will fight it out in the June Democratic Primary to face the nominee of the surging Republican Party. The two expected face cards in the Republican Primary will be the ousted Chief Justice Roy Moore and Gov. Bob Riley. Although Gov. Riley has not shown his hand as of yet, it is expected that Riley will run but it is not certain. The growth of the Republican Party and the perceived weakness of...

The Republicans' philosophy about the relationship between God and government distinguishes them from everybody else, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore said Tuesday. Moore held a gathering spellbound Tuesday at Valley Hill Country Club as guest speaker at a luncheon hosted by the Republican Women of Huntsville. Citing phrases from the Declaration of Independence and quoting Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, Moore stressed that America began on the principle that citizens have God-given rights. The role of government is not to split God from everybody, he said. "The government is there to secure the rights that God gave us," he...

Their reasons may be corrupt. Their emotions may be out of control. Their motivations may be wrong. But insofar as the Democrats seek to block President Bush’s nomination of former Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor to the federal courts, their actions should be applauded by every Christian who believes that evil should not be rewarded with good (Proverbs 17:15), that judges must fear God more than men (Exodus 18:21), and that Jesus Christ is Lord even over America’s judiciary (Psalm 2:10-12). Mr. Pryor is remembered for five defining events in his public career: 1. According to a sworn affidavit by...

Chief Justice Roy Moore’s new book So Help Me God is a captivating and unflinching first-hand account of a man on the front lines of the battle between religious freedom and judicial tyranny. This Alabama Supreme Court Justice embodies the true definition of patriotism, inasmuch he has risked his career and reputation to stand by his oath of office and refuses to deny his allegiance to the Constitution and the laws of nature and nature’s God for the mere sake of catering to the frenetic, deep-seated anti-religious paranoia of the uber-secular left. It was on June 9, 1993 that ACLU...

GOP appears open to Moore candidacy Leaders undisturbed by his possible ties to Constitution Party Wednesday, February 09, 2005 By SALLIE OWEN Capital Bureau MONTGOMERY -- Despite speculation that Constitution Party ties might hurt his chances with the GOP, former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore would likely be accepted onto the Republican ballot if he runs for office, according to several GOP leaders. Moore, who has been linked to the Constitution Party, has said he is considering a bid for governor in 2006 and that he would probably run as a Republican. He was ousted as chief justice...

When Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore refused a federal court order to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments from that state’s Supreme Court building, he became the central figure in a firestorm of criticism from the left. But his liberal critics weren’t alone. Conservatives also chided Moore, contending that his defiance of the order undermined the “rule of law” in America. Throughout history, the law has served several functions. In a free and morally upright society, it provides a framework within which the people can safely live their lives and pursue their dreams. In a dictatorship, however, it devolves...

In the survey's hypothetical general election pairings, Baxley drew 39% to Riley's 35%. She led Moore 44% to 38%.