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“It’s a shame that we’ve got people in Congress that don’t even support American values and support Muslim theology, which is directly contrary to the United States Constitution. If they take an oath on the Koran, they take an oath on an instrument that violates religious freedom. They don’t recognize the God who gave religious freedom under our Constitution. And …

The Birmingham News reports: Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R) on Wednesday said Rep. Ilhan Omar should go back to Somalia after the Minnesota Democrat called him a child molester while criticizing the Alabama GOP for seeking her expulsion from Congress. “I fully support the resolution of the Ala Rep Party asking Congress to expel Omar under Article 1 Section …

Courthouse News reports: Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore’s second campaign for U.S. Senate was a mere 12 days old when his attorneys asked a state judge to put to rest a lawsuit that arose from lurid accusations that caused his first campaign to crumple in the final weeks of the 2017 race. On Monday he will ask an …

From the right wing Daily Caller: Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore’s senate bid is off to a slow financial start, according to his campaign’s fundraising numbers. Moore, who announced his senate bid June 20, raised $16,963 in campaign contributions, according to documents filed Monday with the Federal Election Commission. That is a small fraction of what all five of …

The Birmingham News reports: Roy Moore “likely failed” a December 2017 polygraph he took in an effort to clear his name from accusations made against him by women during the Senate race that year, according to a lawsuit filing Monday. Attorneys for Leigh Corfman, who maintains she was sexually molested as a 14-year-old by the then-32-year-old Moore in 1979, filed …

Politico reports: Alabama Republicans are showing little appetite for giving former state Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore another shot at winning a U.S. Senate seat, two years after he blew what should have been a gimme election in the ruby red state after being embroiled in a sordid personal scandal. A new survey from the Alabama-based polling firm Cygnal shows …

NBC News reports: Multiple other Republican candidates have announced their own bids for the state’s Republican nomination to take on Jones in 2020. Moore told NBC News: “If people want them, they’ll elect them. But I have a strong base here. And they’ll elect me.” He said the potential addition of Jeff Sessions, who served as senator from Alabama prior …

Politico reports: Republicans are promising to do everything they can to obliterate Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate primary. “There will be a lot of efforts made to ensure that we have a nominee other than him and one who can win in November,” said Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.). “He’s already proven he can’t.” “Give me a break. …

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump Jr. tore up Republican Roy Moore after the Alabama Republican announced he was again running for Senate following a stunning loss in 2017. Both President Donald Trump and his son have criticized Moore’s decision to run since it was first reported in May he was considering a comeback bid. Trump Jr. previously blasted Moore, saying, “You’re …

The Birmingham News reports: Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore announced Thursday he is running for U.S. Senate in 2020, two years after narrowly losing a bid for the seat to Democratic Sen. Doug Jones amid allegations of sexual misconduct with teenagers. Moore, who was kicked off the bench twice, made the official announcement at a press conference in Montgomery …

The Montgomery News reports: Former Senate candidate Roy Moore’s attorney was arrested Wednesday night. Trenton Roger Garmon, 39, was booked into the Etowah County Jail around 8 p.m., according to jail records. He was arrested by Gadsden police and charged with driving under the influence of controlled substances, second-degree possession of marijuana, and drug paraphernalia. Garmon, who worked as an …

Politico reports: A defiant Roy Moore brushed aside Donald Trump’s warning not to run for Senate again, telling POLITICO on Wednesday that Alabama voters are capable of deciding for themselves whether he’s fit for office. “The president doesn’t control who votes for the United States Senate in Alabama,” Moore said in a phone interview. “People in Alabama are smarter than …

Mobile’s NBC affiliate reports: In a heated exchange on Twitter Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr., son of the President of the United States, went after controversial former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, advising him not to run as a 2020 U.S. Senate candidate after his loss to Democrat Doug Jones in 2017. While Moore has expressed interest in a 2020 run, …

The Associated Press reports: Conservative lightning rod Roy Moore of Alabama, narrow loser of a turbulent special election for Senate in 2017, is considering a fresh run next year. National Republican leaders are signaling they’ll again try preventing their party from nominating the twice-removed state jurist whose campaign was battered by allegations of long-ago sexual harassment of teenagers. “The people …

Via email from Roy Moore’s wife, Kayla Moore: A recent poll of Alabama citizens expected to vote in the upcoming race for United States Senate in 2020 revealed that most Alabamian voters were NOT fooled by Washington Post’s fictitious story about Judge Roy Moore. The poll declared that Judge Moore has a commanding lead over likely contenders for that position. …

From the Hollywood Reporter: Sacha Baron Cohen and Showtime Networks have convinced a D.C. federal judge that the $95 million defamation lawsuit brought by Roy Moore belongs in New York. The decision to transfer the case isn’t the end of Moore’s suit contending he was duped into appearing Who Is America, where Cohen famously pointed a device at the controversial …

Alabama Politics reports: Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore leads the field of potential Republicans vying for the chance to challenge Sen. Doug Jones (D), a year and a half after Moore lost what was supposed to be an easy election in a deep red state. A new poll shows Moore leading a still-evolving field of Alabama Republicans vying …

The Birmingham Herald reports: Roy Moore may be back on a ballot soon. Moore, the 2017 Republican U.S. Senate nominee whose campaign crashed after allegations of sexual misconduct, said Friday he is “seriously considering” another run for office. Appearing on Focal Point radio show with Bryan Fischer on American Family Radio, Moore was first asked about a potential Senate run …

The Washington Examiner reports: Roy Moore, a conservative lightning rod who cost the Republican Party a Senate seat in deep-red Alabama, is signaling fresh interest in mounting another campaign in 2020, sparking alarm on the right that Sen. Doug Jones could be gifted another unlikely victory. Moore, 72, a former state judge, made the rounds at last Friday’s Alabama Republican …

The New York Times reports: The “Dry Alabama” Facebook page, illustrated with stark images of car wrecks and videos of families ruined by drink, had a blunt message: Alcohol is the devil’s work, and the state should ban it entirely. Along with a companion Twitter feed, the Facebook page appeared to be the work of Baptist teetotalers who supported the …