Roy Moore | |
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In office January 15, 2013 – April 26, 2017 Suspended: May 6, 2016 – April 26, 2017 | |
Preceded by | Chuck Malone |
Succeeded by | Lyn Stuart |
In office January 15, 2001 – November 13, 2003 |
Three women alleged that he had sexually assaulted them: two were minors at the time of these incidents, and Moore was then in his 30s. Six other women recalled Moore pursuing romantic relationships or engaging in inappropriate or unwanted behavior with them while they were between the ages of 14 and 22.
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After being honorably discharged from the U.S. Army in 1974 at the rank of captain, Moore enrolled in the University of Alabama School of Law and graduated with a law degree in 1977. He then returned to Etowah County, becoming the deputy district attorney. In 1982, he unsuccessfully competed in the Democratic primary for the position of Circuit Court judge for Etowah County. After failing to win the election, the dejected Moore took a maintenance job in Galveston, Texas, before moving to Australia in 1984, where he worked on a ranch. Afterwards, he moved back to Alabama, where served as a lawyer in private practice. In 1985, he married Kayla Kisor Heald, a divorcee with one child, whom Moore later adopted. Together they would have three children.
Roy Stewart Moore (1947- ) is a politically and religiously conservative politician and former judge who is best known for the national controversy surrounding his placement of a two-and-a-half-ton monument to the Ten Commandments in the Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building while serving as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. He was removed from his position as chief justice, in 2003 for refusing to remove the Ten Commandments monument and was suspended in 2016 for defying the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage. Over four decades, Moore has also served as the Deputy District Attorney of Etowah County and judge on the Sixteenth Judicial Court of Alabama. He also ran unsuccessfully for governor. He lost a 2017 special election to the U.S. Senate after allegations surrounding inappropriate relationships with under-age girls became public, and he failed again in 2019. Moore established the Foundation for Moral Law in 2002 to promote his view that Judeo-Christian values are the basis for American government and law.
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Judge Moore was overwhelmingly re-elected by a vote of the people of Alabama as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in November of 2012 and took office in January of 2013. In 2016, Judge Moore was suspended for upholding the sanctity of marriage as between one man and one woman. He retired to seek the office of U.S. Senate in 2017.
Judge Moore graduated from Etowah High School in Attalla, Alabama, in 1965 and from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1969 where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Arts and Engineering. He then served in the U.S. Army as a company commander with the Military Police Corps in Vietnam. After the Army, Judge Moore completed his Juris Doctor degree from The University of Alabama School of Law in 1977.
Judge Moore and his wife, Kayla, have four children and five grandchildren. They are members of First Baptist Church in Gallant, Alabama.
accusations of sexual misconduct and child molestation. Roy Moore in 2011. In November 2017, multiple women made allegations of sexual misconduct against Roy Moore, the Republican nominee in a U.S. Senate special election in Alabama scheduled for the following month. He is a former Alabama chief justice, and district attorney.
Moore called these initial allegations "completely false, false and misleading", adding, "I have a special concern for protection of young ladies," and also, "You understand this is 40 years ago, and after my return from the military, I dated a lot of young ladies."
On November 13, The New Yorker quoted multiple local former police officers and mall employees who had heard that Roy Moore had been banned from the Gadsden Mall in the early 1980s for attempting to pick up teenage girls. An Alabama woman said that Moore was banned from the mall in the late 1970s after she reported to her manager that he was sexually harassing her. Local news channel WBRC interviewed Barnes Boyle, a manager of the mall from 1981 to 1998, who said that, to his knowledge, Moore was not banned. The Moore campaign produced two other witnesses, a longtime mall employee and the Operations Manager overseeing mall security, both of whom said that he was never banned from the mall.
Moore and his campaign. "I Stand With Roy Moore" logo made to support Moore's candidacy despite allegations. On November 10, Moore responded to the initial allegations by Corfman, Miller, Gibson, and Deason in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News Radio.
In January 2018, Corman filed a defamation lawsuit against Moore in January 2018 because he had said that her accusation was "false and malicious ". Moore filed a defamation suit against Corfman and four others in April 2018. In August 2021, an Alabama judge dismissed Corfman's lawsuit, ruling that she did not prove that Moore's campaign staff or volunteers had knowingly made false statements or acted with reckless disregard for the truth.
A separate letter was signed by 59 Christian ministers, mostly from mainline Protestant denominations, who wrote that "Even before the recent allegations of sexual abuse, Roy Moore demonstrated that he was not fit for office.".
One of the accusers, Leigh Corfman, filed a defamation lawsuit against Moore in January 2018 because he had said that her accusation was "false and malicious". Moore filed a defamation suit against Corfman and four others in April 2018.
About three weeks later, Nelson admitted to a Good Morning America reporter that she herself had added the wording below Moore’s name in order to “remind herself [of] who Roy Moore was, and where and when Mr. Moore signed her yearbook.”
Moore claimed in response that he didn’t even know Nelson, but she offered a contrary piece of evidence documenting that he did — her high school yearbook, which Moore had signed below the inscription “To a sweeter, more beautiful girl I could not say ‘Merry Christmas'” just weeks before the alleged attack: