Supreme Court won’t hear Roy Moore’s appeal over $8.2 million jury verdict in campaign ad dispute 

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge from Roy Moore, the former Alabama Supreme Court justice, to an appeals court ruling that wiped out a multi-million defamation verdict over a 2017 campaign ad that recounted allegations of sexual misconduct against him.

The decision effectively ends Moore’s long-running legal battle against Senate Majority PAC, a Democratic-aligned political action committee. The justices also turned away his emergency appeal to review the lower court order earlier this year without explanation.

The dispute centered on television commercials aired by Highway 31, a group backed by the Senate Majority PAC, during a 2017 special election that suggested Moore was banned from a local mall for soliciting sex from teenage girls.

The ads cited news reports detailing accusations of sexual misconduct by several women, including one woman who claimed........

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