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How Alabama Is Responding To Allegations Against Roy Moore

NPR
Published November 13, 2017 at 12:06 PM EST
Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at the Vestavia Hills Public library, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017, in Vestavia Hills, Ala. According to a Thursday, Nov. 9 Washington Post story an Alabama woman said Moore made inappropriate advances and had sexual contact with her when she was 14. Moore is denying the allegations. (Hal Yeager/AP)
Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at the Vestavia Hills Public library, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017, in Vestavia Hills, Ala. According to a Thursday, Nov. 9 Washington Post story an Alabama woman said Moore made inappropriate advances and had sexual contact with her when she was 14. Moore is denying the allegations. (Hal Yeager/AP)

Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore says he plans to file a lawsuit against The Washington Post, after the newspaper reported last week on allegations that Moore initiated a sexual encounter decades ago with a 14-year-old girl.

Moore denies the claims, and says he questions their timing just a month before the special Senate election. Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson checks with Brian Lyman (@lyman_brian), state government reporter for The Montgomery Advertiser.

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