Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore plans to appeal an 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the 2½-ton Ten Commandments monument should be removed from the Alabama Judicial Building.
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore announced today he will attempt to take his controversial Ten Commandments-monument case directly to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Moore said he will not seek further hearings from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, which ruled unanimously earlier this month a 2½ ton granite monument he placed in the rotunda of the judiciary building in Montgomery must be removed.
The court said it represented a government promotion of a particular religion, in violation of the First Amendment.
"I will personally petition the United States Supreme Court as chief justice of this state to hear me on this matter," Moore said in a statement....