Roy Moore

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Roy Stewart Moore (born February 11, 1947) is an American politician and former Alabama state judge known for being twice elected to and twice removed from the Alabama Supreme Court. He also is the founder and president of the Foundation for Moral Law. Moore is the Republican nominee in the 2017 special election to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions and currently held by Luther Strange.

Moore was elected to the position of Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 2001, but was removed from his position in November 2003 by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary for refusing to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments commissioned by him from the Alabama Judicial Building, despite orders to do so by a federal court. Moore twice sought the Republican nomination for the governorship of Alabama (in 2006 and 2010), but lost in the primaries. Moore was again elected Chief Justice in 2013, but was suspended in May 2016, for directing probate judges to continue to enforce the state's ban on same-sex marriage despite the fact that this had been deemed unconstitutional.

Following an unsuccessful appeal, Moore resigned in April 2017, and announced that he would run for the United States Senate seat that was vacated by Jeff Sessions, upon Sessions's confirmation as Attorney General of the United States.[1][2] Moore won Republican primary over Luther Strange.

The Senate race has featured multiple allegations that Moore had pursued or sexually assaulted high school girls while a man in his 30s. Five women allege that Moore dated or attempted to date them when they were still in high school; one woman stated that when she was 14, a 32-year old Moore initiated a sexual encounter; and one other woman said that Moore sexually assaulted her when she was 16.[3][4] Moore denied the allegation of sexual assault of a fourteen year old.[5] The controversy led some Republicans to call for Moore to drop out of the race. Moore has called the allegations fake news and a smear campaign.

Moore is a conspiracy theorist and an advocate of far-right politics.[6][7] He earned significant national attention and controversy over his strongly anti-homosexual, anti-Muslim, and far-right views, his belief that Christianity should order public policy,[8][9] as well as his past ties to neo-Confederates and white nationalist groups.[10][11][12][13][14] Moore was a leading voice in the birther movement, which promoted the debunked conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama was not born in the United States