Jewish groups praised the removal of an Alabama judge who refused to remove a Ten Commandments monument from a courthouse. “It’s a verification that the rule of law will prevail,” Steven Freeman, director of legal affairs for the Anti-Defamation League, said Thursday of the State Court of the Judiciary decision to remove Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore from the bench.
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