Judge Roy Moore, who served multiple terms as the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, being elected by voters overwhelmingly, now is asking for the U.S. Supreme Court to secure and protect an $8.2 million judgment he won in a defamation case.
Moore, a staunch conservative, is asking the court to protect that judgment because if he wins the case that now is on appeal, he is concerned the losers in the district court decision will have removed the money and it will be impossible for him to collect.
According to a report at Scotusblog, he was attacked repeatedly with false charges during his 2017 campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate, a special election held to replace Jeff Sessions, who for a time was attorney general during President Donald Trump’s first term.
Democrat Doug Jones election eventually won that election, which was marred by unsubstantiated allegations that Moore solicited sex from a teenage girl, charges that Moore confirms were “not true.”
Moore was targeted by the leftist Senate Majority PAC, a team that works to elect leftist and extremist Democrats and undermine the campaigns by Republicans.
Moore charged the PAC fabricated a “campaign advertisement that falsely portrayed Roy S. Moore as man who solicited sex from a fourteen-year-old girl.”
Roy Moore asks SCOTUS to block appeals court ruling that reversed $8.2 million defamation award #alpolitics
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The case involves television ads that run during Roy Moore’s campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2017, and a decision against Moore by the 11th Circuit. More 👇 pic.twitter.com/bBREBiW3r6
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The jury in the trial court agreed with Moore, confirming the PAC defamed him. In fact, as Moore is a public figure, the jury confirmed the PAC “published that falsehood with actual malice.”
Then the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the case, opening the door for Moore to go to the Supreme Court.
Moore now is asking that the 11th Circuit mandate be delayed, as if it is issued, the “8.2 million bond that guarantees payment of the jury’s verdict” could be released and vanish.
He submitted, to the Supreme Court, if that is allowed, “the judgment he obtained after trial will be lost as a practical matter before this court can determine whether review is warranted.”
Moore served multiple terms in the Alabama Supreme Court, having been put there by voters over and over.
He was ousted in the early 2000s when he posted a Ten Commandments monument in a state building and when a federal court decision told him to censor those statements, he declined. Such actions were in the bull’s-eye for leftists at the time, but now the momentum has reversed and even federal courts are allowing state requirements that those biblical precepts be posted in locations such as schoolrooms.
He later was taken out of office a second time following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, in which by a single vote from a far-left LGBT-promoting justice the court created same-sex marriage for the entire nation, a decision that now is the target of campaigns that would involve overturning it.
