On September 26, 2017, he won a primary runoff to become the Republican candidate in a special election for a U.S. Supreme Court decision about same-sex marriage ( Obergefell v. Moore was elected again as chief justice in 2013, but he was suspended in May 2016, for defying a U.S. Moore sought the Republican nomination for the governorship of Alabama in 20, but lost in the primaries. Moore was removed from his position in November 2003 by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary for refusing a federal court's order to remove a marble monument of the Ten Commandments that he had placed in the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building. In 2001, Moore was elected to the position of chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. In 1992, he was appointed as a circuit judge by Governor Guy Hunt to fill a vacancy, and was elected to the position at the next term. After graduating from the University of Alabama Law School, he joined the Etowah County district attorney's office, serving as an assistant district attorney from 1977 to 1982. Moore attended West Point and served as a company commander in the Military Police Corps during the Vietnam War.

Moore ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in 2020.

Senate special election in Alabama to fill the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, but was accused by several women of sexual misconduct and lost to Democratic candidate Doug Jones. He was the Republican nominee in the 2017 U.S. Roy Stewart Moore (born February 11, 1947) is an American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as the 27th and 31st chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2013 to 2017, each time being removed from office for judicial misconduct by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary.

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