[Bluntpoint]

Judge Moore could have uses his position to "re-educate" the public on the connection between civil law and God's law.

His in your face, middle of the night ambush, just fed his own self-aggrandizement and hurt his cause.

He can no longer sit on the highest court expecting others to submit to "Ceasar's law" and be an impediment to that same law.

It would have been an appellate nightmare.

For the record, I have no problems with the Commandments. I have practiced in courts for years with similar artifacts.

However, the judges and adminstrators associated with those courts, did not turn the availability of such devices into a tool for their own glory and moral vanity.

[P.O.E.]

Judge Moore could have uses his position to "re-educate" the public on the connection between civil law and God's law.

I think he's doing exactly that. Although, to your point, perhaps not in the "best" way.