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Article: Alabama's Chief Justice Defies Court Order; Moore Refuses to Remove Ten Commandments Monument from State Building [ Corrected: 09/22/03 ]
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- The Washington Post
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- August 15, 2003
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Defying a federal court order, the chief justice of the Alabama
Supreme Court said yesterday that he will refuse to remove a granite
monument that is inscribed with the words of the Ten Commandments
from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery.
"Alabama will never give up its right to acknowledge God," Chief
Justice Roy S. Moore declared as he stood in front of the 5,280-
pound display.
Moore also accused U.S. District Judge Myron H. Thompson, who has
ordered the monument removed by Wednesday, of "callous disregard for
the people of Alabama," and challenged the authority of federal
courts to interfere with the state's legal system.
"They have no power, no authority, no ...