MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama’s Ten Commandments judge is running for governor again.

Former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore announced today he is running as a Republican.

The 62-year-old Moore’s campaign Web site went up this morning, inviting supporters to sign a pledge to help elect him governor.

Moore ran unsuccessfully for the office in 2006.

When he was a circuit judge, Moore waged a court battle to display a homemade plaque of the Ten Commandments in his courtroom.

Later, as chief justice, he placed a granite monument of the Ten Commandments in the lobby of the state judicial building. He refused to remove it, in defiance of a federal judge’s order, which cost him his office in 2003.

Brittney Exline, 17, enjoyed a short stop at home between college and a summer in Cameroon. Photo by KEVIN KRECK, THE GAZETTE