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Has a sitting President ever refused to follow a ruling by SCOTUS?

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Has a sitting President ever refused to follow a ruling by SCOTUS?

This is out of Obama's hands. It doesn't matter what he wants to do. The appeal is from an order from the bankruptcy court. If the case is reversed the order is voided.

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To: kcvl
Has a sitting President ever refused to follow a ruling by SCOTUS?

127 posted on Monday, June 08, 2009 5:27:12 PM by Protect the Bill of Rights

Andrew Jackson did; I think on moving the Cherokees to what later became Oklahoma

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Has a sitting President ever refused to follow a ruling by SCOTUS?

Lincoln Issues Proclamation Suspending Habeas Corpus Rights
President, military defied Supreme Court

Along with a declaring martial law, President Abraham Lincoln ordered the suspension of the constitutionally protected right to writs of habeas corpus in 1861, shortly after the start of the American Civil War. At the time, the suspension applied only in Maryland and parts of the Midwestern states.

In response to the arrest of Maryland secessionist John Merryman by Union troops, then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Roger B. Taney defied Lincoln's order and issued a writ of habeas corpus demanding that the U.S. Military bring Merryman before the Supreme Court. When Lincoln and the military refused to honor the writ, Chief Justice Taney in Ex-parte MERRYMAN declared Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus unconstitutional. Lincoln and the military ignored Taney's ruling.