“The first speaker was Judge Roy Moore, Ala. 16th Circuit Court, who has received national recognition for posting the Ten Commandments in his courtroom.”
Citizens Informer
Roy Moore, the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, once addressed the "semi-annual national conference" of the Council of Conservative Citizens, the white supremacist group that alleged Charleston shooter Dylann Storm Roof cited as a formative influence in his online manifesto.
Moore became famous in 2003, when the Alabama Court of the Judiciary unanimously relieved Moore of his duties as Chief Justice after he refused to comply with a federal judge's order to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Judicial Building.
After two unsuccessful campaigns for the Republican nomination for governor of Alabama, and an abortive exploration of the prospect of running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, Moore sought and won back his old post as Alabama's Chief Justice.
But back in 1995, Moore — according to the Citizens Informer, the newsletter of the Council of Conservative Citizens — was simply "Judge Roy Moore, Ala. 16th Circuit Court, who has received national recognition for posting the Ten Commandments in his courtroom."
Citizens Informer
He was also "the first speaker" at the group's semi-annual conference, held in Birmingham.
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