Robert Bentley asking him to stand up to "judicial tyranny" after a federal judge ruled Alabama's same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional. Moore was re-elected in 2012.The fiery Republican chief justice has been an outspoken critic of same-sex marriage both on and off the bench. His order came six months after the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges effectively legalized gay marriage. Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore — ousted from office more than a decade ago over a Ten Commandments display — now faces removal from the bench over his effort to block gay marriage from coming to that state after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. "There is nothing in writing that you will find that I told anybody to disobey a federal court order.

Source: Fox News May 06, 2016 21:52 UTC