How's that for Justice?

[yendi]

Roy Moore has been removed from office. Which is not to give us too much hope that the country is moving in a vaguely forward direction again (one small step forward after ten leaps back doesn't amount to a hell of a lot), but it's something.

My favorite part of the article is when Moore says ""I have done what I was sworn to do." Um, no. He did exactly what he was sworn not to do. Or did he forget that oath he took?

Comments

[10dimensions.livejournal.com]

"He and his supporters say that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of the U.S. legal system"

Uh...no. Regardless of what our founding fathers may have personally believed, they built our system on an absence of religious influence.

[mightywombat.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad there was someone reasonable in that chain of decision-making. Or a room full of unanimously voting sense-thinkers. It's people like that guy who really need a thumping, not the Bible...

[blueingenue.livejournal.com]

My favorite part is:

Moore said he would discuss the possibility of an appeal with his lawyers and could ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review his removal, arguing that it violates the Constitution's ban on religious tests as a qualification for office.

If he can't uphold his oath of office without acknowledging God, why would he seek refuge in a Constitutional ban on religious tests as a qualification for office?

[justanotherg33k.livejournal.com]

I heard on CNN that he has a 75% approval rating in his home state. Mind you, they didn't quote a source, nor can I locate one. I applaud the decision, but I have this sinking feeling that this is going to be a hollow victory similar to John Ashcroft losing his senate reelection bid, but getting elevated to Attorney General.

I would not be surprised if he becomes a senator or the governor of Alabama within the next couple of elections... Somewhat sickened, but not surprised.

[thejunebug.livejournal.com]

No no, the best comment was Moore saying that he was going to fight the decision because we need to end the hypocrisy in this country.

...Not that displaying a 5-ton monument to the Judeo-Christian belief system in a US Court of Law is hypocritical, or anything. That whole Establishment Clause with its separation of church and state is fiddle faddle.