[Texas Federalist]

Wrong. No act of Congress, nor the Constitution itself, gives the judiciary the power to interpret the Constitution. The judiciary claimed that power in Marbury v. Madison. Even after that decision, the Constitutionality of each law was considered independently by Congress before it was passed, and the executive branch before it was enforced. It was not until the years leading up to the New Deal that Congress and the executive branch began abdicating their responsibility to act as a check on judicial interpretation.

What you and I say is unconsitutional may amount to a "hill of beans", but Pryor is a member of the executive branch who has a duty to independently consider the Constitutionality of a law before he enforces it. In this case he has decided to punish Judge Moore for obeying the Consititution.