[jeffersondem]

“The Lincoln Administration could have, and would have, challenged much of what Taney wrote in the courts had the Southern rebellion not interfered.”

I don't think anyone disputes that states have the right to nullify illegal supreme court decisions, or illegal acts of any branch of the federal government, but I had not heard that federal inferior courts could overrule the supreme court.

How, exactly does that work? Is that where the president suspends habeas corpus and then orders the inferior courts to overrule supreme court decisions that the president finds objectionable?

[rockrr]

Is that where the president suspends habeas corpus and then orders the inferior courts to overrule supreme court decisions that the president finds objectionable?

No.

[DoodleDawg]

I don't think anyone disputes that states have the right to nullify illegal supreme court decisions, or illegal acts of any branch of the federal government, but I had not heard that federal inferior courts could overrule the supreme court.

LOL! The idea that states can nullify federal actions much less Supreme Court decisions died with South Carolina in 1832.

How, exactly does that work? Is that where the president suspends habeas corpus and then orders the inferior courts to overrule supreme court decisions that the president finds objectionable?

Far easier than that. Pass legislation, fight it out in lower courts, win in the Supreme Court. All nice and legal under the Constitution.