I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry over this:
Well, duh! Of course Trump is not going to obey court orders. Why on earth should he? Who is going to make him? (I have a vague recollection of hearing a supposedly famous quote about the court's armies but now I can't find it.)
This is the saddest part:
But the combative rhetoric by Vice President JD Vance and top adviser Elon Musk has troubled legal experts, who said there is no modern precedent for a president to ignore or defy court orders. [Emphasis added.]
As if that matters. In case you hadn't noticed, there is no precedent, modern or otherwise, for anything Donald Trump has done. Donald Trump's entire brand is built on telling people where they can stick their modern precedents.
There is only one way to make Donald Trump obey a court order and that is to levy a credible threat of removing him from office through the impeachment process. Good luck with that.
The only near term hope for the world is that the community of national governments will show more integrity and cooperation than the American ruling classes have done.
ReplyDelete"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia and https://www.fjc.gov/history/administration/executive-enforcement-judicial-orders) Supposedly uttered by President Andrew Jackson (but probably not).
ReplyDeleteDuring a 2021 interview, as a Senate candidate, current VP JD Vance said: "When the courts stop you, stand before the country, like Andrew Jackson did, and say, 'The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.'"