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The Washington Post hs an excellent editorial wrapping up the removal of Justice Moore in Alabama yesterday:
But civil disobedience is not the province of judges, who are not in any event supposed to serve as generals in the culture wars. When the federal courts say what the Constitution means, the duty of every state court judge in the nation is to obey.
This is the crux of the matter, in my mind. As I said before, I wasn't unsympathetic to Justice Moore's rather ostentatious display, nor did I feel that the court order removing the monument (all three tons of it) was critical to the safety of the republic. Once ordered, though, Moore was duty-bound to obey it, and his refusal to do so unequivocally disqualifies him for the bench. That's what lunatic-fringe pundits like Michael Savage don't understand.
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