In an interview with Raycom’s Max Reiss that aired on Montgomery NBC affiliate WSFA on Wednesday, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore looked back at the Ten Commandments monument controversy from the early part of last decade.

On the 10-year anniversary of his suspension from the bench for missing the deadline to remove the monument, Moore said he has no regrets for the stand he took.

“You know when I look back, I was proud to uphold the law, the Constitution of the United States and the First Amendment, which states we must acknowledge God to have a moral basis for our society and to retain that freedom of conscience, which every person in this state and in this country recognize as very important,” Moore said.

Moore went on to explain that his loyalty was to the Constitution, not to the court order issued by U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson declaring the monument was unconstitutional.

“I’m not sworn to an unlawful order of a court,” Moore added. “We should recognize courts do issue orders, but the Constitution is the supreme law of the land.”

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