Roy Moore: kickboxer, sacked judge, US Senator?

THE first time Roy Moore lost an election, for a seat on the Alabama circuit bench, he quit the law to become a professional kickboxer. Now stumping for the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, the attorney-general, the former chief justice of Alabama is limbering up for a more ambitious fight. “Put on the whole armour of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil!” he tells a crowd in Huntsville, northern Alabama, in the words of the apostle Paul. “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but…against the rulers of the darkness of this world!”

This takes Republican dissatisfaction with Mitch McConnell to a new level. The party’s leader in the Senate is hated by Mr Moore for having put his wiles—and millions of dollars from conservative donors—behind his rival for the Republican Senate ticket, Luther Strange. It is easy to see why. Mr Strange, who is keeping the Senate seat warm at the behest of Alabama’s former governor, Robert Bentley, is a...Continue reading

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