It’s an ugly world, but that’s how it works.
That’s not how it is supposed to work in America.
If a judge issues an unlawful or unconstitutional opinion, the officers of the other branches, in order to be loyal to their own oaths, are obligated to ignore or oppose them.
To say anything else is to make a mockery of the oath.
In other words, both “the rule of law” and the very Constitution are basically dead at this point.
Yes, that’s the conclusion I derive from all this. I no longer see an existing republic that’s worth saving.
If the Founding Fathers believed “that’s how it works”, then they would have endured the taxation without representation and we would have continued as colonies of the British Empire.