Roy Moore

Trump infuriated after backing Alabama loser

<b>(CNN) —</b> Returning from a high-dollar fundraiser in Manhattan on Tuesday evening, an infuriated President Donald Trump watched aboard Air Force One as Fox News called the Alabama Senate primary for Roy Moore against Trump's favored candidate, Luther Strange.<p>What ensued was a barrage of angry venting …

Politics

Stephen Colbert: Roy Moore Alabama’s Next Senator Unless Dems Nominate Confederate Flag | Deadline

Stephen Colbert introduced Late Show viewers to Roy Moore who, he explained is destined to become the next senator from Alabama “unless Democrats …

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Roy Moore’s win is bad for Alabama, and even worse for the GOP

As a proud Alabamian, I’m walking today with my shoulders slumped. Roy Moore is the Republican nominee to be the next U.S. senator from my state, and he is likely to be elected in December. Moore is bad for Alabama and worse for the GOP.<p>To liberals, having Moore in the Senate will be the gift that …

Opinion

Roy Moore Isn't Just Defiant. He's Dangerous.

He twice lost his job for denying the supremacy of the Constitution. Is that a message the people of Alabama support?<p>Roy Moore is more extreme than you think -- and his candidacy for a U.S. Senate seat is not a joke, but a serious threat to the Constitution and the rule of law. The shenanigans that …

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The 7 most controversial things Roy Moore has said

Republicans eager to maintain their thin Senate majority may now be forced to defend Moore's inflammatory statements.<p>Republicans clinging to their thin majority in the Senate are now confronting the question about whether to vigorously support insurgent Roy Moore, the highly controversial former …

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Roy Moore's win in Alabama shows the bankruptcy of the establishment GOP

If you're thinking about how Roy Moore could have possibly won Tuesday's Senate primary in Alabama, it's worth trying to forget about Moore. Forget his belief that the US brought 9/11 on itself, forget his warning that parts of Illinois are under Sharia law, forget his repeated refusals to obey …

Republican Party

Chuck Todd claims Republican doesn’t believe in the Constitution – his reason is crazy

MSNBC anchor Chuck Todd claimed that newly nominated Republican candidate Judge Roy Moore was an extremist with views that ran contrary to the Constitution. His reasoning left many scratching their heads.<p>In the video from his show Wednesday, Todd says that one of Moore’s extremist beliefs is that …

Conservative View

This Republican Senator needs a way better answer on Roy Moore

<b>Washington (CNN) —</b> Roy Moore's victory in the Alabama Republican Senate runoff on Tuesday makes it <i>very</i> likely that he will be joining the world's greatest deliberative body sometime in early 2018.<p>Between now and then, his soon-to-be colleagues need to come up with some better answers when questions …

Politics

Roy Moore's triumph in Alabama has Republicans reeling

Anthony Zurcher North America reporter<p><b>In Alabama, Donald Trump strayed from his base - the anti-establishment voters who helped sweep him to the Republican presidential nomination and stood by him during the general election - and paid the price.</b><p>Or, rather, Senator Luther Strange, who will have to …

Elections

Roy Moore Believes Homosexuality is Grounds for Parents to Lose Custody of Their Kids

As the Senate race draws near, Moore's proud, bigoted past could come back to haunt him.<p>Roy Moore, a former Alabama State Supreme Court Chief …

Equality

How Roy Moore's Win Roils Republicans

Trump and McConnell lost. The party's Senate majority is looking shakier than ever.<p>There are three big reasons why Roy Moore's defeat of President Donald Trump-endorsed Senator Luther Strange in the Alabama Republican primary on Tuesday matters.<p><b>RIP, Trump's Magic:</b> Sure, Trump is the least popular …

Elections

Man Who Put KKK Behind Bars Will Now Try To Stop Roy Moore From Reaching Senate

Democrat Doug Jones has seen an uptick in attention since Moore won the GOP primary.<p>Roy Moore is about as odious a candidate as Democrats can imagine. As chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, he refused to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring marriage equality the law of the …

News (U.S.)

Roy Moore’s Alabama Victory Sets Off Talk of a G.O.P. Insurrection

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Republicans are confronting an insurrection on the right that is angry enough to imperil their grip on Congress, and senior party strategists have concluded that the conservative base now loathes its leaders in Washington the same way it detested President Barack Obama.<p>The defeat …

News (U.S.)

Dangerous Christian Extremist: Roy Moore Wins In Alabama

Theocracy Alert: Roy Moore wins GOP Senate primary, wants to make gay sex illegal and turn the U.S. into a Christian theocracy.<p>Roy Moore is a …

Equality

Watch Roy Moore, the latest GOP star, argue for criminalizing homosexuality

Bill Clark/ZUMA<p>The Republican Party has a new star: former judge Roy Moore. On Tuesday night, in an Alabama GOP primary, Moore defeated Luther …

Liberal View

Donald Trump Begins to Turn the Senate Into Still Another Fight Club

What Alabama shows is that the president has so weakened the Republican Party he captured that he cannot lead them to victory.<p>There is a new twist in Donald Trump’s wars, large and small, with everyone—North Korea, the NFL, Jeff Sessions, Mika Brzezinski, and the list goes on. He publicly broke up …

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“Children Wander Aimlessly Poisoned by Cocaine”: Real Poets Workshop Roy Moore’s Poetry

The wild fringe Republican who's likely to become a US Senator from Alabama has said a lot of crazy things. He also writes poetry.<p>On Tuesday, Alabama Republicans chose Roy Moore as their candidate for the Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Despite Donald Trump campaigning …

Poetry

The Incendiary Roy Moore

Why is everyone describing the right-wing jurist and Alabama Republican Senate candidate as a “firebrand”?<p>For once, the American press is in complete agreement: Roy Moore, the right-wing former judge who was swept to victory Tuesday night in Alabama’s Republican Senate primary, is a firebrand.<p><i>The</i> …

Equality

See What Triggered MSNBC To Cut Off Roy Moore's Victory Speech

On Tuesday night, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell cut off Republican Roy Moore’s victory speech while his remarks focused on God.

Conservative View

The GOP Identity Crisis

The Republican Party can’t pass Obamacare repeal but it can nominate Roy Moore.<p>This is the state of the GOP in a nutshell. It is a party locked in mortal combat between an establishment that is ineffectual and unimaginative and a populist wing that is ineffectual and inflamed. It is rare for a …

Politics

Trump deleted his tweets that endorsed Luther Strange, after Roy Moore's win in Alabama

Following Alabama judge Roy Moore's projected win in the state's Senate primary on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump began deleting his tweets that supported Luther Strange, Moore's opponent in the race for the seat once held by Jeff Sessions.<p>Throughout the week leading up to the special …

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Roy Moore Isn’t Just Anti-Gay, He’s Anti-Democracy

The likely next senator from Alabama believes God’s law trumps American law.<p>Roy Moore, the twice-disgraced Alabama judge who is now the Republican Party’s candidate for Senate, has been depicted in the media as an anti-gay firebrand. But this characterization misses the point and underestimates the …

Equality

God has sent us a judge. Hallelujah.

The triumph of former judge Roy Moore in Alabama’s Republican Senate primary was a ray of sunshine for those of us who’d like to restore stoning to our legal system and remove the curse of profanity once and for all from our country. Scripture is very clear: “Thou shalt not swear.” But God’s chosen …

Opinion

Roy Moore Could Help the Democrats Actually Win Back the Senate Next Year

Democrats are desperate to win back control of the Senate, and they are assembling a slate of candidates to make their play for power in the 2018 …

Liberal View

Roy Moore Gave the GOP Another Chance to Reject Authoritarianism. It Declined.

The Republican Establishment has suffered through the Trump presidency, filling the news with a constant stream of caustic, mordant, off-the-record …

Politics

Who Really Lost Alabama

The GOP’s ObamaCare failure helps to elect Roy Moore in Alabama.<p>The damage from the Senate GOP’s ObamaCare failure will redound for years, and the first election fallout came Tuesday when Alabama Republicans nominated twice-defrocked state Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore to fill the Senate seat …

Lisa Murkowski

Defying Trump, Alabama GOP picks Roy Moore – and embraces the same old politics of rage

The Roy Moore and Luther Strange Republican primary runoff in Alabama wasn’t quiet, staid or dignified.<p>Set against the backdrop of Strange’s …

Democratic Party

Who Is Doug Jones, the KKK-Fighting Democrat Taking on Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate Race?

Jones remains an outsider in the battle for the Alabama Senate, but observers say we shouldn't write off his chances just yet.

Equality

Mitch McConnell Is Having A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Roy Moore beat his preferred candidate in Alabama. Now the GOP must answer for Moore's controversial past.<p>WASHINGTON ― Obamacare repeal is in shambles. Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker ― a key GOP leader ― is calling it quits. And on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) got even more …

Politics

Everything you need to know about the cartoon villain who is Roy Moore

If I were a movie director and some intern passed a script to me that featured a candidate like Roy Moore, I would send them back to Oberlin …

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