ABSTRACT
THE RULE OF LAW On the night of July 31, 2001, Roy Moore, the elected Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, had a 5,280-pound granite monument placed in the rotunda of the state’s Judicial Building in Montgomery. Chief Justice Moore did so without the knowledge or consent of the other eight justices on the court. The monument depicted a book, presumably the Holy Bible, open to two pages on which the stonemason had carved the King James translation of the Ten Commandments. A private evangelical group, Coral Ridge Ministries, paid the costs of the project. Within days, Stephen Glassroth, a Jewish attorney practicing in Montgomery, sued to have the monument removed.
