[colorado tanker]

You're assuming that the case law that state courts have to obey lower federal courts is correct

That's not case law - it's written into the Constitution as the Supremacy Clause.

How many divorced people, especially men, have you met who thought they got a fair shake in their divorce decree? How many defendants held liable for negligence admit they made a mistake? How many people in jail will admit they did the crime? Having a Chief Justice take the position that people don't have to obey court orders they disagree with is a prescription for anarchy.

I don't like the federal decision any better than the others on this thread but the way to go about changing this is not to tear down the rule of law.

[aristeides]

If that result was so obvious under the Supremacy Clause, what do you think Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, 14 U.S. 304 (1816) and Cohens v. Virginia, 19 U.S. 264 (1821) were about? They came out the way you want, because centralizing federalists like Marshall and Story dominated the Supreme Court. But a Jeffersonian Supreme Court would probably have ruled very differently.

[TruthConquers]

How many divorced people, especially men, have you met who thought they got a fair shake in their divorce decree? How many defendants held liable for negligence admit they made a mistake? How many people in jail will admit they did the crime? Having a Chief Justice take the position that people don't have to obey court orders they disagree with is a prescription for anarchy.

I don't like the federal decision any better than the others on this thread but the way to go about changing this is not to tear down the rule of law.

But the rule of law has ALREADY been torn down by the DemocRATs when Clinton got away with perjury. Don't you see, the longer we tell ourselves that we have to follow the rule of law and they don't, they win and we lose!

[VRWC_minion]

How many divorced people, especially men, have you met who thought they got a fair shake in their divorce decree?

Sometimes its necessary to be in contempt of court. Once my ex-wife came to pick up her son for a court ordered visitation. He was about 3. She was about 12 hours late, he was in bed and she was drunk. I refused her access. She later had her attorney cite me for contempt.

I told the judge I ws without remorse and would do it again in a heartbeat.