[supercat]

In that case, the police powers vested in the executive come into play.

How so. What authority does the executive to disregard an order which is legal according to lawfully-established facts? [BTW, I'm fishing here for the answer that when the judiciary establishes some "facts" that are just plain wrong, as it has in the Schiavo case, rulings predicated upon those "facts" should not be acted upon.]

[narses]

A court order that creates a criminal end result is a nullity. In order to protect life, the police can move without warrant on to private property. Can they defy a court order? It has happened. More than one "Jim Crow" order was defied by President Eisenhower and Kennedy.