Alabama’s Supreme Court Justice, Roy Moore (pictured), was removed from office
earlier this year, and is under investigation for violating judicial ethics
that bar judges from engaging in political conduct.
The Chief Justice was
removed from office because he ordered all Alabama judicial officers to ignore the Supreme
Court’s ruling that recognizes the constitutional right of gay and lesbian
adults to marry each other.
On Thursday, Moore and his backers lost another ruling
before U.S. District Judge Callie V. Granade, who wrote this on Tuesday:
“Given the actions by Alabama state and local officials
during this litigation, both before and after the Supreme Court decided
Obergefell (the national same-sex marriage case), it cannot be said with
assurance that there is no reasonable expectation that Alabama’s
unconstitutional marriage laws will not again be enforced.”
Granade issued a permanent injunction Tuesday that prevents
Alabama officials from enforcing laws against same-sex unions. The rulings—which
applies to all of Alabama’s judicial officers, including probate judges and
officials who control marriage licenses— are barred from standing in the way of
marriage equality.
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