It would be sweet if the appeals court rather than SCOTUS delivered the smackdown.It seems like it would be difficult for any appellate judge to support this obvious con; they might want to keep from making themselves targets of a SCOTUS smackdown.
Not when the public will be behind Trump.
One appeals court has ruled, on the spending freeze :
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4297000/posts