UPDATE ON JUDGE MOORE; HABERSHAM & BARROW COUNTY, GEORGIA                
Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Judge Roy Moore filed notice on December 10th that he will appeal his removal from office.

Roy Moore was removed from office because of his refusal to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the Supreme Court building in Montgomery.

Moore has also filed a motion with the Alabama Supreme Court asking that acting Chief Justice Gorman Houston not preside over the appeal, but to recuse himself because of public statements the justice made about the case. Also
it should be brought out that according to the Associated Press three judges gave money to Judge Moore’s opponents in the campaign that he won!

Judge Moore has been accused of not abiding by the rule of law, but he says, “The rule of law is not U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson’s order, (to remove the monument) but what the law says.” Continuing Moore stated in a World Net Daily interview that, “There are too many people in our country who don’t recognize that the rule of law is not whatever a judge says. If that were true,” claims Moore, judges in Hitler’s Germany would have been correct ordering people to die.”

In the appeal, one of Moore’s attorneys will emphasize Thompson’s unwillingness to define what religion means.

Judge Moore continues to express that his case has been “more about restoring
the acknowledgement of God than the Ten Commandments monument… In
other words, he continued, “When courts have usurped jurisdiction of the Constitution, of the meaning of the First Amendment, when they’ve intended powers where they don’t have a right to be, then the Congress has a right, under the Constitution to restrict the appellate jurisdiction of the United States Supreme Court and the federal district courts, which Congress has created.”

Moore is proposing federal legislation to reassert the power he insists Congress already has to limit the jurisdiction of federal courts.

That’s why it is critical that judicial limitation legislation is passed in Congress. We are confronted daily with institutional judicial tyranny; the grabbing of legislation authority.  It must be brought to an end by Congress.

In the meantime U.S. District Judge William O’Kelley in Gainesville, Georgia has told of threatening phone calls after his ruling in November for Habersham County, Georgia to remove copies of the Ten Commandments. Habersham County, Georgia is appealing the decision.

Judge O’Kelley presided over Barrow County, Georgia’s hearing recently to determine if the plaintiff’s can remain anonymous.

Herb Titus, a lawyer representing Barrow County argued it will be hard to determine the plaintiff’s credibility if he remains anonymous.

The decision is forthcoming.

Remember to pray for Judge Roy Moore and for the cases concerning the freedom to hang the Ten Commandments