Judges dislike this practice intensely. There are many cases of judges virtually taking over the direction of government agencies which refuse to respect the court's decisions.
One long-standing case I believe involves voting procedures in one or more southern states. Another involves a large city's fire department's hiring practices.
Imagine the DC Circuit Court enjoining the DC Police Department from charging ANY gun crimes and enjoining the DC prosecutors from prosecuting any such crimes, subject to criminal contempt citations from the Court for violating the Court's orders. Given acquiesence from the higher courts, each individual court has incredible power within their jurisdiction.
Agreed, but they may think that that is preferable to losing most of the gun controls that the left has snuck in over the last 100 years.
And it would take *years* to get through the court systems.