['Ere ya go, Steve. It looks like he was axed exactly as we were sitting inside PUBLIC, listening to Stan. All is right with the world again. - KEN.] Ten Commandments Judge Removed From Bench MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP 2003-11-13 17:31:10 GMT) - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from office Thursday for refusing to obey a federal court order to move his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the state courthouse. The state Court of the Judiciary unanimously imposed the harshest penalty possible after a one-day trial in which Moore said his refusal was a moral and lawful acknowledgment of God. Prosecutors said Moore's defiance, left unchecked, would harm the judicial system.