Ten Commandments Appeal Judges Chosen
From Times Wire Reports
Seven retired judges were selected randomly in a lottery to hear Roy Moore’s appeal of his ouster as Alabama chief justice in his Ten Commandments monument case.
The drawing came just hours after all eight Supreme Court justices disqualified themselves because of their earlier involvement in the case.
Moore was ousted by the Court of the Judiciary on Nov. 13 for refusing to obey a federal judge’s order to remove his monument from the rotunda of the state judicial building.
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