[Electric Graffiti]

“For the Executive branch to ignore the Judicial branch would be a direct affront to the oath every president takes.”

I wasn’t aware that the Executive took an oath to the Supreme court. Btw, The branches aren’t equal, either. Are you sure you’re a conservative? What reality are you living in?

[AustinBill]

The presidential oath is to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States". That means the entire Constitution, not just the parts the current president likes. Article III, Section 1 states "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish." SCOTUS is thus the creation of the Constitution, while all lower federal courts are the creation of Congress. The president defers to lower courts both out of respect for the Legislative branch that created them as well as the Judicial branch, to which they adhere.

The remedy for overreach on the part of lower courts encroaching on Executive branch authority is to appeal the ruling, ultimately to SCOTUS. By design the Constitution diffuses power and that can sometimes seem "messy". But the alternative is to ignore the rule of law and simply rule by decree, something that would signal the end of the republic. You don't save the republic by destroying it. You save it by demonstrating how the self-correction mechanisms designed by the framers work. That's what Trump is doing. The fact that this seems slow and inefficient to some is the price one pays for doing things legally "by the book". That's the only way lasting reform happens.