Everyone’s favorite theocrat, Alabama’s Roy Moore, wasted a lot of time and energy abusing his power and launching a crusade to advance his theocratic agenda. His drive to use his office to promote the Ten Commandments was obviously an unconstitutional effort and Moore lost at every level and before every court in which his case was heard.
If Moore were only wasting his own time and that of his admirers, it would be sad but irrelevant. Unfortunately for the people of Alabama, Moore also wasted a lot of taxpayer money in a state that really can’t afford it.
A federal judge ordered the state Wednesday to pay more than half a million dollars in lawyer fees and expenses in connection with the suit to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building rotunda.
U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson gave the state up to 30 days to pay $549,430.53 to lawyers for people who sued to remove the monument, placed in the rotunda by Roy Moore, the state’s ousted chief justice.
This is a state that is firing teachers, closing police stations, and letting felons out of jail because it doesn’t have enough money. And because one elected nut refused to abide by the law the state will now have $549,430.53 less. What a shame.