the president almost always follows court orders or court opinions. It’s a very ingrained norm in the US that court orders, especially from the Supreme Court, are binding.
Sorry if this wasn’t clear. The whole point of this exploration is to figure out what happens when the president does not follow court orders. I will adjust the intro to clarify that.
I agree this would be approximately unprecedented! But it seems very much a scenario worth exploring. I made these edits to make that clearer:
So, let’s say the supreme court wants to stop a sitting president from destroying democracy in America. First, they release a judgement saying that something the executive branch is doing is unconstitutional. Hopefully the U.S. president agrees and then just stops doing that. But what happens when the executive branch keeps doing it anyways?
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So, with this background knowledge, I see roughly 4 big ways the supreme court can try to reign in an out of control executive branch that isn’t listening to a judgement they made:
Sorry if this wasn’t clear. The whole point of this exploration is to figure out what happens when the president does not follow court orders. I will adjust the intro to clarify that.
I agree this would be approximately unprecedented! But it seems very much a scenario worth exploring. I made these edits to make that clearer:
Hope that makes it clearer to future readers!