In an interview released on Thursday, Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Comey Barrett had to be asked twice what the nation’s highest court would do if Donald Trump turned up his nose at an adverse ruling and refused to abide by it.In a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times’ Ross Douthat,...
The correct answer would be, “Nothing, because the Supreme Court doesn’t have an enforcement arm. That’s for the Legislative and Executive branches to handle.” Even if there were 9 hyper progressive judges on the court, if the other 2 branches were controlled by fascists, like they are now, there would be fuck all they could do if their rulings were simply ignored.
Someone said they could deputize their own enforcement outside the DoJ if it really came down to it? But not sure how that’d work at scale, only in an isolated way.