Perils of Electing Judges
At the start of the MSNBC video clip available here, demagogue and barking loon Roy Moore calculates that his defiance of a court order requiring him to remove an unconstitutional ten commandments monument is costing Alabama taxpayers $25,000 a day. The idea, apparently, is that it's the fault of the federal courts for making him waste tax funds in an obviously doomed fight to preserve the establishment of religion in his courthouse.
Update: A commenter links to Volokh, who notes that Moore is actually talking about another case, which he sees as analogous to his own… as is presumably evident from the whole clip, as opposed to the MSNBC excerpt I saw. The total amount Moore's wasting therefore remains unclear, though even before legal fees are taken into account, there's that $5,000 per day fine.
