According to observers on both sides of the issue, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore will likely be removed from office on Wednesday when he goes before a judicial review board for refusing to obey a federal judge who, without reference to any law, ordered him to remove the granite Ten Commandments monument he had installed at the State Judicial Building.

For standing against an unlawful order from a power-mad federal judge acting outside his proper jurisdiction, Moore has been abandoned by state officials who once stood behind him and will now lose his job. Meanwhile, the idea of "statehood" has ceased to mean anything, and the nation is run by a judicial monarchy. Judges reign supreme, and the people have ceased to be their own rulers.