The rulings came three years after an Alabama judge, Roy Moore,
installed a 5,300-pound granite monument depicting the Ten Commandments
in the state's judicial building in Montgomery. Moore's defiance of a
federal court order to remove the monument cost him his job as chief
justice of Alabama's Supreme Court and the monument was wheeled away in
2003.
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