Alabama's decalogue demagogue
• Christian Fundamentalism
Dahlia Lithwick in Slate:
One hesitates to spill one more drop of ink over Chief Justice Roy Moore—the demagogue judge who heads the Alabama Supreme Court and who—as of midnight last night—is in violation of a federal court order to remove a 5,000-pound monument to the Ten Commandments from the rotunda of the Alabama State Judicial Building. Moore, who's made a career of confusing his bench with a pulpit, has evinced such contempt for the rule of law, the Constitution, and the rest of this nation that he's unworthy of another word. There is, however, a constitutional problem highlighted by Moore's conduct and by the popular support he's garnered in some circles.