From the BBC: Roy Moore, Alabama’s top judge, ousted over gay marriage stand

Roy Moore, 69, violated judicial ethics with an order seen as directing probate judges to deny marriage licences to gay couples, a judicial panel ruled.

The decision was a “politically motivated effort” by radical groups, he said. His lawyer has vowed to appeal.

It is the second suspension for Mr Moore, an outspoken conservative.

In 2003, he was removed for refusing to take down a monument of the Ten Commandments he installed at a state building.

He was re-elected as chief justice of the state’s Supreme Court in 2012.

I object to referring to Roy Moore as a conservative. He is a reactionary jerk who wants to impose his version of canon/Sharia law on the people of Alabama. He will run for governor again because he will be too old under Alabama law to run for the state supreme court again in 2018.

Meanwhile over at the CBC you find: Trump’s ‘idiosyncrasies not abnormal,’ says Republican stalwart Newt Gingrich. Just a suggestion, when you ask a question like that you should talk to the doctor not another patient. Gingrich was ‘invited’ to leave Congress because of ethics violations and he has not only gone through three wives, like Trump, he is on his third religion.

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Matthew weakened slightly overnight to a Category 4 hurricane. At 1PM CDT the storm appears to have lost its steering currents.

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