Ten Commandments Judge May Run

The Ten Commandments judge may run for governor. Roy Moore made a bid for the post in 2006. But he lost the Republican primary to incumbent Bill Riley. Rules prevent Riley from running again in 2010 for a third term. Another former governor supported Riley. But Fob James will probably be backing his son, this time around. Tim James is already campaigning.

Moore got his nickname after putting a a two-ton Ten Commandments monument in the rotunda of the state judicial building when he served as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. He refused a judge’s order to remove it, so the State Court of the Judiciary kicked him out of office in 2003.

Moore runs the Foundation for Moral Law in Montgomery.