This is an excellent responses I will answer even though I think you meant it to be rhetorical.
When you say lower courts SHOULD ignore it that simply isn’t how the Rule of Law works. Lower courts are bound by the rulings of higher courts without exception. If you don’t like the outcome you change the underlying legislation. Or you mount a campaign for a constitutional amendment. Or you mount a novel legal challenge. Or you remove it from the courts jurisdiction in some fashion. You don’t simply ignore it. A Supreme Court ruling isn’t the end of the legal road.
As for your question about murder I’ll take a shortcut and assume you are pro-life (even though there are a lot of libertarians on FR.) If you are pro-life you likely assume that Roe v. Wade legalized murder across the board in the first trimester of pregnancy. And ALL lower courts have accepted this ruling as binding until it is reversed or revised. That’s the proper order of law being followed.
If you don’t like that outcome the options to you are made clear by the Rule of Law. Simply ignoring the court ruling isn’t one of them.
obama does it day in and day out.
The rule of law isn't a license to do anything you want. When it conflicts with natural law and reality, it SHOULD be resisted, unto blood if necessary.
re: “If you don’t like that outcome the options to you are made clear by the Rule of Law. Simply ignoring the court ruling isn’t one of them.”
This is rub. People of goodwill who support law and order are now having to make a choice. Abide by the rule of law and disobey the moral standards of God, or disobey the duly elected government and obey God.
I believe an Orthodox Jew or Christian must be willing to disobey government when it clearly, egregiously, violates the Law of God. However, it must be understood that doing so opens one up to legal consequences. Believers must be prepared to endure those consequences, and, also not whine about it when it happens.
So, I disagree with your premise that the “rule of law” is always the right thing to do. These are extraordinary times - that’s no news to anybody nor is it the first time the world is living in insanity - so, sometimes ignoring an unjust order is the just thing to do - but, again, understanding that one will face consequences for doing so. We must not shrink away from doing what is right because we might have to pay a price.