Didn’t Texas do something like this a while back?
Texas Governor Perry would be an ideal governor to initiate a federal restraining order. But I think it was Arizona that threatened to arrest federal officers for violating a state law.
But this would be a ***federal order*** and Obama would have to respond through the federal judiciary which is an equal branch of government. It would allow states to challenge the legality of the EOs that Obama signs.
It would also be a preliminary order like a temporary restraining order where the court does not need to plow through a full hearing before issuing the order. They could issue the temporary order and then allow Obama’s lawyers to come in and try and have it lifted. The court would have control of the docket schedule and could run out the clock on Obama.
So in the sense that it would be a temporary order lasting perhaps 1 to 2 years, it would be unlike Boehner’s lawsuit against the President which appears to have come off the rails recently.