Our Hypothetical just became Our Reality

To date, one of the most challenging hypothetical questions has been: What if the court orders something and Donald Trump ignores it?

Well, we are about to find out. (And my guess is that nothing will happen.) Oh, the courts have been hyperventilating about it, but the administration has been playing along the edges so far. They have been filing appeals and delaying until the rulings are moot.

But last week, the administration just chose to ignore the courts. They deported a Professor who had a green card and taught at an Ivy League School - because she was Lebanese. The court said not to, and they just ignored it.

Then, this week! President Trump declared us at war with Venezuelan gangs. He had to actually say it was a war to declare his own powers. Well, the court almost immediately put a hold on this as he was sending two flights of Venezuelan gangs to El Salvador (we are paying El Salvador to put them in super-max prisons there instead of keeping them). The court said they couldn't do it, but the Administration did it anyway.

They now claim that the flights were over international waters when the court order was processed, and since they were, US courts had no jurisdiction. This is a change from their first excuse, which was that they didn't know.

We are now in territory we haven't been in since the 1830s when a different President ignored the Supreme Court. So that's fun.