Another quick thought I failed to address in my last post - who's to say?
Who's to say that, in this period of time where people are conditioned to believe that the courts are the law that the local police would not have interpretted an order by the Executive as an unlawful order, regardless of its constitutionality?
I think it was a showdown best avoided.
So, in your opinion (and this is a question, not an attack) was this showdown worth less than the showdown between the President and George Wallace?
That was merely enforcing the right to an equal education, not the right to life. IIRC (And I can't even remember who was President - was it Ike? - so I may not recall correctly.) No shots were fired. And the people of Alabama certainly supported their Governor.
Shalom.