Twice removed from the bench:
Moore was elected to the position of
Chief Justice of the
Alabama Supreme Court in 2001, but removed from his position in November 2003 by the
Alabama Court of the Judiciary for refusing to remove a monument of the
Ten Commandments commissioned by him from the
Alabama Judicial Building, despite orders to do so by a federal court. Moore sought the
Republicannomination for the
governorship of Alabama in
2006, but lost to
incumbentBob Riley in the June
primary by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. He sought the Republican nomination for the office again in
2010,
[1] but placed fourth in the Republican primary.
Moore was again elected Chief Justice in 2013, but was suspended in May 2016, for directing probate judges to continue to enforce the state's ban on
same-sex marriage despite the fact that it had been overturned.