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A CBS News poll conducted a few weeks prior to the December 12, 2017 election for the Alabama State Senate revealed that "71 percent of Alabama Republicans say the allegations against Roy Moore are false," [55] and that the Democrats and media were behind the charges. While the CBS poll showed Moore leading the election, a Washington Post poll ...
On December 28, Merrill and Alabama governor Kay Ivey certified the results of the senatorial election [188] despite a last-minute lawsuit from the Moore campaign (rejected by a state judge) seeking a new election on the grounds of voter fraud. [189] Moore became the first Republican to lose a statewide race in Alabama since Republican Twinkle ...
U.S. Supreme Court concurred three weeks later in an unrelated case, Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections. Glassroth v. Moore (2002) – Court rules that a display of the Ten Commandments, erected by Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore in the Alabama Judicial Building violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
The renewed scrutiny on the opinion comes as Moore is locked in a close race with Democrat Doug Jones to see who will become the next member of the U.S. Senate to represent Alabama.
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At 9:23 p.m. CST on December 12, 2017, the Associated Press called the election for Jones; however, Moore refused to concede. [14] [15] Jones was the first Democratic candidate to win a statewide election in Alabama since former lieutenant governor Lucy Baxley was elected president of the Alabama Public Service Commission in 2008. [434]
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