Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore faces ethics charges, suspended from post

The Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission has filed ethics charges against Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore for his actions following the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 decision that legalized same-sex marriage.

Moore has been suspended from his post due to the charges and could be removed from office. The Alabama Court of the Judiciary will hear the charges, which stemmed from a complaint filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

In the wake of the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage decision last year,…