Roy Moore was a long-serving judge in Alabama, including serving as the state’s chief justice. He refused orders to remove religious monuments from the grounds of the state’s main judicial building and ignoring the Supreme Court’s recognition of same-sex marriage, which led to his suspension and resignation. He ran as a Republican Senate candidate in a 2017 special election but was defeated after several women, including some who had been minors at the time, said Moore had previously sexually assaulted them.