Perhaps only in the deeply Republican state of Alabama could a pistol-packing, stetson-wearing ex-judge accused of sexual misconduct become a formidable political candidate. In 2003, Moore was removed from the Alabama supreme court after defying a federal order to take away the monument. Leigh Corfman claimed that in 1979, when she was 14, an older man approached her outside a courtroom and introduced himself as Roy Moore. “These allegations are completely false and are a desperate political attack by the National Democrat party and the Washington Post on this campaign,” Moore said. “And that’s the Almighty God.”THE MOORE FILEBorn Roy Stewart Moore, 11 February 1947, in Gadsden, Alabama, the oldest of five children of a construction worker and housewife.

Source: The Guardian December 10, 2017 00:00 UTC