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  • Warning – Serious Item! U10 Commandmensts judge Moore is an egomaniacal huckster)

    08/28/2003 12:12:24 PM PDT · by quidnunc · 379 replies · 482+ views
    ESPN Page 2 ^ | August 26, 2003 | Gregg Easterbrook
    -snip- Judge Roy Moore, the publicity-seeker who put the 2.5-ton Ten Commandments in the Alabama state courthouse, declared Monday that he could disobey the direct order of a federal judge because "judges do not make laws, they interpret them." Since, Moore continued, an interpretation can be wrong, therefore he may defy a judicial order. So presumably Judge Moore also thinks that if he sentences a man to prison, the man can declare that the interpretation might be wrong and walk free? It's exactly the same logic. Moore further said that the First Amendment precept, "Congress shall make no law respecting...