In November 2017, multiple women made allegations of sexual misconduct against Roy Moore, a former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and the Republican nominee in the U.S. Senate special elec
Roy Moore in 2011
The president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Russell Moore, "saved some of his harshest criticism for ministers who [used] theological arguments to defend Roy Moore".
The 2017 United States Senate special election in Alabama took place on December 12, 2017, in order to fill the Class II Senate seat for the remainder of the six-year term. A vacancy arose after incum
Roy Moore sexual misconduct allegations
…multiple women made allegations of sexual misconduct against Roy Moore, a former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and the Republican nominee in the U.S. Senate special election scheduled for the following month. Three women alleged that he had sexually assaulted them, two of whom were minors at the time while Moore was then…
Doug Jones headshot
Jones on stage following his victory
An envelope to a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraising mailer distributed in 2018 with a reference to Jones' victory in the traditionally strongly Republican state of Alabama