He slapped down the 10 commandments and would tear the facade off of the Supreme Court building.
He should be defeated on the floor vote and a few Republican Senators should switch on the vote to do it.
W is in charge and should pick the best. Pryor has no backbone. He's more of a politician than a constitutional judge.
Pryor is the antithesis of Souter. Moore is a grandstanding politician who could have done the 10 Commandments the right way, but instead he wanted to thumb his nose at the entire Federal Court system instead.
Pryor not only offered to help Moore at the outset of his case, he offered him his two best attorneys from the Alabama AG's office. Moore declined.
Instead, Moore decided to challenge 50 years of Supreme Court precedent just to make a point.
What did you want the AG Pryor to do? Defy the Federal Court Order" Stand in the door like George Wallace?
He, too, took an oath to enforce the law, even laws with which he vehemently disagrees.
Using your approach, the Mayor of San Francico was right to defy the court and perform gay marriages.
See, the problem is that a judge (and an Attorney General) cannot just unilaterally decide which Court orders to follow or not to follow. That leads to anarchy!
I tell my Christian friends that the judiciary is in the shape it is (more secularist) because Christians sat at home during elections and decided not to attend law schools.
If you want to change the judiciary, don't defy court orders -- get off your but, vote, and convince other people to vote!
Pryor was fulfilling his job description as perscribed by the Alabama State Constitution.
And besides, Roy Moore was totally in the wrong. He brought in that monument for the sole purpose of having it challenged, because he has higher political aspirations, and in Alabama, we have sent ex-Chief Justices to other offices (for example Howell Heflin)