[snowsislander]

Isn't this blatant contempt?

It certainly sounds like it to me.

I am not a lawyer or a politician, and maybe a state judge or a governor can defy a branch of the federal government, but Governor Wallace certainly didn't succeed.

[Proud_texan]

"and maybe a state judge or a governor can defy a branch of the federal government"

Perhaps my logic is flawed and Congress isn't the SCOTUS but the situation reminds me of a supreme justice issuing a stay of execution.

Maybe that's what's called for, a stay of execution because I don't think it can be called anything else.