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Roy Moore Suspended From Alabama Supreme Court For Anti-Gay Marriage Order
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Sep 30, 2016 02:09pm |
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| Category | Legal Ruling |
| Author | Emma Margolin |
| News Date | Friday, September 30, 2016 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Roy Moore, Alabama's controversial chief justice of the state Supreme Court, was suspended without pay for the remainder of his term on Friday for instructing probate judges to deny same-sex couples marriage licenses, in contradiction to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
"For these violations Chief Justice Moore is hereby suspended from office without pay for the remainder of his term," stated the order from the Alabama Court of the Judiciary. "This suspension is effective immediately. Chief Justice Moore is also taxed with the costs of this proceeding."
Friday's decision comes on top of nearly two years' worth of repeated clashes between the state and federal judiciary over whether same-sex couples have a right to wed in Alabama. In January 2015, a federal judge ruled that they did, but two months later the state Supreme Court decided they didn't.
All the while, Moore had been instructing probate judges — many of whom are not lawyers — to listen to the state Supreme Court and deny the licenses. |
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