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Line 9: − In 2003, [[liberal]]s removed him from office for rejecting a federal court order to remove a statue of [[the Ten Commandments]] from the supreme court building rotunda. He was subsequently reelected in a landslide as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.+ + + + + +
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==Supreme Court of Alabama==
==Supreme Court of Alabama==
===Ten Commandments===
===Ten Commandments===
On August 1, 2001, Moore installed a 5,280-pound monument of the [[Ten Commandments]] in the Alabama judicial building.<ref name="ALEncyc">Kraft, Emilie (May 12, 2008). [http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1525 Ten Commandments Monument Controversy]. ''Encyclopedia of Alabama''. Updated November 5, 2013. Retrieved October 2, 2016.</ref> His action caused an uproar, particularly among [[liberal]]s, who claimed the monument violated the [[separation of state and church]], and in October three attorneys supported by the left-wing to far-left organizations [[Southern Poverty Law Center|SPLC]], [[ACLU]], and [[Americans United for Separation of Church and State|AUSCS]] sued Moore.<ref name="ALEncyc"/>
On November 18, 2002, a U.S. district judge ruled against Moore, and later the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta also ruled against him.<ref name="ALEncyc"/> Moore rejected the orders to remove the monument, and was suspended and eventually removed from office on November 13, 2003.<ref name="ALEncyc"/><ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/11/13/moore.tencommandments/ Ten Commandments judge removed from office]. ''CNN''. November 14, 2003. Retrieved October 2, 2016.</ref>
===Re-election===
Moore was re-elected as Chief-Justice in November 2012.<ref name="Who?"/>
===Same-sex marriage===
===Same-sex marriage===