Donald Trump and Mike Pence have been in an all-out blitz to campaign for Luther Strange in today’s Republican primary run-off for Jeff Sessions U.S. Senate seat. But, notable nut job Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court has been garnering the biggest headlines in Alabama and last night he had one more trick up his sleeve, or in his pants. To the delight of campaign rally attendees, Moore pulled his tiny little gun from his pocket, waving it around as proof he’s the most Second Amendment candidate of all.
“It’s been very hard for my wife and myself to wither two, nearly three months of negative ads that we couldn’t answer with money because we didn’t have it. Ads that were completely false. That I don’t believe in the Second Amendment,” Moore, a former chief justice, moments before he pulled out the handgun.
“I believe in the Second Amendment,” he continued.
Here’s video of the bizarre moment.
Meanwhile, apparently nobody on Moore’s staff can spell. This embarrassing error is rolling around Alabama:
Roy Moore is a stickler for Constitutional rights, except when he isn’t. The former chief justice of Alabama was suspended not once, but twice for refusing to follow federal law and ordering others to disobey federal law. From the New York Times in September 2016:
Nine months after instructing Alabama’s probate judges to defy federal court orders on same-sex marriage, Roy S. Moore, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, was suspended on Friday for the remainder of his term for violating the state’s canon of judicial ethics.
It was the second time in his contentious career that Judge Moore, an outspoken conservative, was removed as chief justice, and it followed his most recent star turn in the nation’s culture wars.
The suspension was imposed by the state’s Court of the Judiciary, a nine-member body of selected judges, lawyers and others, which found Judge Moore guilty on six charges. While the court did not take him off the bench entirely, as it did in 2003 after he defied orders to remove a giant Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building, it effectively ended his state judicial career. His term ends in 2019, and Judge Moore, 69, will be barred by law from running for a judicial position again because of his age.
Moore’s opponent, Luther Strange, is trailing Moore in the two final polls. Strange’s last-minute argument is that Moore is, and it is hard to type this while laughing, pistol-packing, gay marriage hating Roy Moore is too liberal:
Strange, who is backed by President Trump, also told the Examiner that Moore has a "Democrat record" on the Alabama Supreme Court.
"He's got the liberal record in terms of rule of law," Strange said.
"It's really ironic that some conservatives are siding with my opponent, who really has no conservative accomplishments. What has he actually done for the conservative movement?"
One of these men will face former U.S. Attorney Doug Jones, who prosecuted abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph. Find out more about Doug Jones here.