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News on Judge Moore and Alabama standoff:

• Ten Commandments displays at issue across the nation | Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who calls himself "the Ten Commandments judge," isn't the only one promoting the Ten Commandments on public property (Scripps Howard News Service)
  
  
• Supporters surround monument | Courts reject judge's efforts to keep Ten Commandments (Birmingham Post-Herald)
  
  
• Alabama justices buck chief on Ten Commandments (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Supporters say freedom's on the line | It didn't take long to find out the crowd was overwhelming in support of the chief justice (Montgomery Advertiser)
  
  
• Finding references to God easy in America | Whatever the outcome of the battle over the Ten Commandments monument in the Alabama state Judicial Building, religious symbols and words will continue to be embedded in the government, the courts and other public places (Associated Press)
  
  
• Supporters continue their protests | Protests and prayers went on into the night (Montgomery Advertiser)
  
  
• Judge's family says he hasn't changed | Those who have known Moore through childhood, West Point, Vietnam, and a sometimes stormy legal career say the standoff is hardly surprising from a man who has never compromised when it comes to his faith (Associated Press)
  
  
• Commission will review complaint | Filings say Chief Justice Moore violated the Alabama Canons of Judicial Ethics (Mobile Register, Ala.)
  
  
• Monument is shielded, in place (Mobile Register, Ala.)
  
  
• Supreme Court justice sought son's counsel | Seniority led Gorman Houston Jr. to try to lead justices to consensus (Mobile Register, Ala.)
  
  
• Justices order commandments display moved | Eight of Alabama's top jurists act after the chief justice fails to abide by a court deadline (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Justices overrule Moore; monument ordered out (The Birmingham News, Ala.)
  
  
• Moore's colleagues vote to move display | No plans were revealed about when or where the 5,280-pound granite display might be moved. The justices' order only said it would be done "as soon as practicable." (Montgomery Advertiser)
  
  
• Thou shalt not, colleagues tell Alabama judge | The eight associate justices of the Alabama Supreme Court ordered the removal of a monument of the Ten Commandments installed in the court by their chief justice. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Ala. justices symbolically conceal commandments | Partitions put up briefly to comply with order (The Washington Post)
  
  

Opinion on Judge Moore and Alabama standoff:

• Push has come to shove | Beyond the fight-or-flight reactions to the Alabama Ten Commandments controversy, questions about strategy have gone undebated. Here's a start (Marvin Olasky, World)
  
  
• Judge Roy Moore deserves jail | How is this in any way different from David Koresh's refusal to abide by the commands of the federal agents in Waco? (Michael Newdow, Beliefnet)
  
  
• Religious genocide | Dashing toward the godless public square (Jerry Falwell, Beliefnet)
  
  
• Why Roy Moore lost | Is the removal of the monument the tragedy that some will consider it? (M. Casey Mattox, Beliefnet)
  
  
• Taking a stand | Court upholds law in Ten Commandments fight (Editorial, The Birmingham News, Ala.)
  
  
• Commandments safe, despite Roy Moore | Let's make this perfectly clear: Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is not a good friend to the Ten Commandments (Editorial, Mobile Register)
  
  
• Back from the brink | Once again, Alabama flirted with disaster (Editorial, Huntsville Times, Ala.)
  
  
• Justices did what was right | Because of the legal tactics Moore employed in federal court and his own testimony in the case, Moore himself shifted the central issue from the legality of the monument (Editorial, Montgomery Advertiser, Ala.)
  
  

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