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Wednesday, August 13, 2003

Moore to announce monument decision on Thursday

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore will announce Thursday whether he plans to obey a federal court order and remove the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building.

U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson has said he may fine the state if the 5,300-pound monument is not removed by Aug. 20. Thompson last year found that the monument is an unconstitutional recognition of religion by the state. That ruling has been upheld by the 11th U.S. Court of Appeals.

Moore has argued Thompson does not have the authority to order him to remove the monument. But he has not said if he will defy Thompson's order. [...]

I look for him to grudgingly comply. There will be much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth (and I am not speaking figuratively), but in the end he will probably realize that if he can flout a higher court's decision, someone might turn around and do the same to the Alabama Supreme Court. Not that anyone would ever disagree with one of their decisions.

posted by Terry at 11:13:00 AM

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