Legal Battle Over Ten Commandments Monument Will Cost Alabama Taxpayers...

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Legal Battle Over Ten Commandments Monument Will Cost Alabama Taxpayers More Than $500,000

By Kyle Wingfield Associated Press Writer
Published: Apr 14, 2004

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Ousted Chief Justice Roy Moore's fight to keep a Ten Commandments monument in a courthouse rotunda will cost Alabama taxpayers nearly $550,000, officials said Wednesday.

The state reached a settlement to pay $500,000 in attorneys' fees and about $49,000 in expenses to lawyers for three organizations that sued Moore.

Under the terms, Americans United for Separation of Church and State receives $190,000, the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama $175,000, and the Southern Poverty Law Center $135,000.

Moore was removed from the bench in November for refusing a federal judge's order to remove the 5,300-pound monument he installed in the summer of 2001. He is appealing.

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAN2UO32TD.html

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Citizens should file class action lawsuits against the advocacy groups

that ended up supporting him and costing them all this money..WTF..they do it to the left all the time. It's time to start bankrupting the religious right the same way all these right wingers do it to left wing advocacy groups.

[MGKrebs]

2. LOL!!!!

I love it.

[freetobegay]

3. Money well spent!

eom

[TroglodyteScholar]

4. Shame on him (eom)

[David Zephyr]

5. Thou Shalt Keep Thy Religion To Thyself --- St. George Carlin

The Southern Poverty Law Center also broke the bank of the KKK after the cowardly group had harrassed Vietnamese fisherman on the Texas Gulf.

Lovely story, this one.

[leesa]

6. Good. Maybe this will make people think twice about this foolishness

[peterh]

8. Ok….call me cynical….

But when was the last time anyone has given a second thought about wasting public funds….it’s like the old weather cliché….everyone talks about it, but no one does anything about it….

[Stuckinthebush]

7. Just great...we don't have a dime for needed State services

and we have to pay because of the lawless actions of our idiot Supreme Court Chief Justice.

I am pissed at Moore, but I sure wish he'd run for President!