FOX NEWS: ALABAMA TEN COMMANDMENTS JUDGE SUSPENDED...

Drudge Report ^ | 08/22/03 | Matt Drudge

[Pokey78]

Orlando Salinas broke in a few minutes ago and announced this on Fox News.

[aristeides]

No, an act of Congress can do it. See Ex parte McCardle.

[Saundra Duffy]

May the Good Lord have mercy on our souls.

[Saundra Duffy]

May the Good Lord have mercy on our souls.

[College Repub]

There are people in this nation besides Christians. The real battle in this area is between theists and atheists.

[sinkspur]

Sinkspur, what's your big problem with Judge Moore? Is it so offensive to see a God-fearing man standing up for what he and the majority of Americans believe?

Moore is the Huey Long of Alabama. He ignores laws he doesn't like.

He's a megalomaniacal demagogue who would impose a theocracy on Alabama, if he could.

IOW, he's a very dangerous man.

[commish]

Sorry people - but the law is THE LAW and nobody is ABOVE it. JUdge Moore refused to obey a court order (the right or wrong of the order has nothing to do with it)< and now he must pay for that action.

PERIOD!

Anyone who says they are for the rule of law should have no argument about this action. What the Alabama courts and Bill Pryor did was EXACTLY what they were supposed to do. Bill Pryor should be lauded - this is the exact reason why he should be confirmed! He DOES NOT let his personal feelings get in the way of his job. HIS JOB is to uphold the law in Alabama - judge Moore broke the law by DISOBEYING a court order. Bill Pryor then did his JOB!

I do not agree with the decision to remove the monument, but the court issued an order, it was not stayed , and Judge Moore refused to obey it. At that point, what the order was about becomes a MOOT POINT, the only thing that mattered in the Alabama decision was that they had a Judge who disobeyed a lawful court order. And the Order is lawful UNTIL it is overturned. End of story.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Ok. So we could call for an oversight hearing by the House. Make Federal judge in question squirm under the limelight a little, at least.

[wardaddy]

I agree, it's not terribly Christian to kill one's enemies unless absolutely necessary and then arguably that is something where reality sort of takes the front seat to "Christian principles" as in war or self defense.

I could see violence regarding RKBA...most definitely.

Infanticide perhaps if the popular support were there and the government resisted the will of the people.

Excessive taxation or porperty rights issues....these always lead to violence eventually if unheeded.

But, clashes over symbolism...which I support obviously....nah...but we do need to keep on the offensive..we have been reeling for 40 years from their offense. Let them feel the heat for awhile.

No nation lasts forever in it's present incarnation...and we are no exception. The continuing anti-pluralist secularism here will only contribute to our eventual demise....in my view.

For some rather odd reason, this arena was best left largely alone until around 1970 when apparently great number of folks suddenly got much smarter than our founder and the subsequent leaders before that. It's a wonder we survived such a "theocracy" all those years...our foes will not stop until God is removed from the public arena period.

[Helix]

Another case of selective enforcement "under the law" being used by sniveling cowards who simultaneously out the other mouth of their two-faced hypocrisy, "the law is the law"!

If you or I had committed perjury and witness intimidation, we'd be sitting in jail. However, that's only politics, so it doesn't really count. /sarcasm

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"Sorry people - but the law is THE LAW and nobody is ABOVE it."

ONE THING STANDS ABOVE THE LAW, COURAGE!

[aristeides]

You're assuming that the case law that state courts have to obey lower federal courts is correct. It seems to me that the correctness of those decisions is as open to question as the federal case law on the First Amendment.

[wardaddy]

Neither W nor Ashcroft have said sqaut....quiet as churchmice.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

I wonder if these 8 judges are still using the Bible for people to be sworn in, so help them, God?

[B Knotts]

He should take his appeal to the SCOTUS.

He already tried. They rejected the appeal.

So, now what? Is there ever a line which simply must be crossed? Or must we just accept anything the judiciary decrees? I don't know the answer; it just seems to me that this is a dark day for our Republic.

[My2Cents]

Agreed.

I was reading on the train to work Michael Ledeen's book, THE WAR AGAINST THE TERROR MASTERS, and there was the comment that "top officials at the Deparment of Justice are looking for a way to limit the effect of radical Islamic doctrines [in the US] without violating the sanctity of free speech and religion." How ironic that our laws permit the indoctrination of Islamtic hate, a doctrine that threatens the welfare of all Americans, and yet the stating of the Ten Commandments, the moral foundation of western civilization, is held to be illegal. My thought upon reading the comment in Ledeen's book is that the best way to combate Islamic fascism is to allow the alternative to it -- Judeo-Christian teachings -- to thrive in our society. Those who cheer such actions as those against the Ten Commandments monument at the Alabama Supreme Ct. building are killing off our best defense against the hatred that would annihiliate us.

[Dog Gone]

Hmmm...That's an interesting idea. I would hope that this will eventually make its way to the US Supreme Court. Doesn't the SCOTUS chamber have the 10 Commandments chiseled in stone?

You had better hope that the Supreme Court refuses to hear this case, because it would vote 9-0 against Judge Moore. He has so contaminated this case with his own remarks and refusal to respect Federal courts which have jurisdiction over this subject that he can't possibly win.

Judge Moore wasn't interested in winning this legal battle. He was interested in becoming a martyr to the cause for other reasons.

If you want to win on this issue, you bring your test case to the Supreme Court carefully. There is nothing careful about the way Judge Moore has handled this.

[sinkspur]

ONE THING STANDS ABOVE THE LAW, COURAGE!

Well, then Moore should have the courage to take his medicine, which may result in his being removed from office.

[billbears]

HIS JOB is to uphold the law in Alabama - judge Moore broke the law by DISOBEYING a court order

Didn't break any state law that I know of, he is a State Supreme Court Justice. The order was by a national judge which has no rule, especially considering the ruling violates the Tenth Amendment. Misreadings of the First Amendment and relying on an illegally passed Amendment (14th) don't override the rule of law as laid out in the 10th

[Windcatcher]

I can't help but wonder what kind of backlash this will bring (make no mistake, it *will* bring one). A complete GOP takeover in Alabama? An amendment to the AL Constitution? Any reaction in other states?

Thoughts?

[habs4ever]

Yup,onto impeachment, if possible.Time for this huckster to depart and hit the road to shake his tin cup :)