Judicial activists who ruled in this case know what it is about, too; 11th U.S. Circuit Court Appellate Judge Ed Carnes wrote, "If Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument were allowed to stand, it would mean a massive revision of how the courts have interpreted the First Amendment for years."
** Get the above, that is the bottom line of the whole matter.**
It is Carnes and his Leftjudiciary minions who are "above the law" by rendering verdicts based on their OPINION rather than the Constitution.
To me, opinion is the operative word. Because the Constituion reads:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...."
The problem is that the law itself has been "interpreted" by Leftjudicial activists beyond recognition -- and "in violation of both their solemn oaths and the will of the Founders, who expected the judicial branch to rise above contemporaneous political and social agendas and abide by the letter of the Constitution".
This practice (which started many yrs ago)of "constitutional interpretation" by judicial activists is tantamount to incremental tyranny by what Thomas Jefferson rightly feared would become "the Despotic branch."
So, yes I tend to agree with Atty Gen, Bil Pryor that we are a nation of laws, and IF the fight were really abt what most assume, that would be correct.
BUT, since this is a fight abt the constitution regarding delegated powers to the feds, which were intended to be few and defined and those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite, then he (Judge Moore) needs to stand and fight. Too many have backed down before or settled b4 it reached the Supremes.