Attorney General Bill Pryor states in this morning’s Mobile Register that he expects the ten commandments monument to be “removed very soon”.

“My responsibility is to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law, and I will be doing my duty,” Pryor said when asked about the monument after a speech at the Business Council of Alabama’s annual governmental affairs conference at a Florida Panhandle resort.

As you will note from my past post over his appointment to the very Court of Appeals that upheld Judge Thompson’s order, I have the greatest respect for Mr. Pryor. That respect would have diminished considerably if he had agreed to aid and abed Roy’s defiance. We still don’t know the endgame that will occur today, but it certainly sounds like Mr. Pryor will ensure that the monument is removed. It ought to be an interesting spectacle all day today.