Alabama Panel Ousts Judge Over Ten Commandments Monument
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Published: November 14, 2003
NY Times

MONTGOMERY, Ala., Nov. 13 — A special ethics panel on Thursday ousted Alabama's chief justice, Roy S. Moore, who was lionized by the religious right for his refusal to remove a titanic monument of the Ten Commandments he had put in the lobby of the state judicial building.

The head of the ethics panel, William Thompson, said he and his colleagues were given little choice because "the chief justice placed himself above the law" by defying a federal court order to remove the monument.