Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who became famous when he placed his homemade plaque of the Ten Commandments in his federal courtroom, has chosen to hang the biblical laws in his office rather than the Supreme Court chamber.
When the court heard a case Jan. 25 — the first since Moore became chief justice on Jan. 15 — the plaque was not in the chamber.
Moore’s clerk said the justice placed the Ten Commandments plaque on a wall in his outer office, the Associated Press reported.
He fought in federal and state court to keep the plaque in his Gadsden courtroom, where he was a circuit judge until he won the November race for chief justice.
During his campaign, he called himself “Alabama’s Ten Commandments judge” and vowed to take the biblical laws with him to the Supreme Court building in Montgomery. (RNS)
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