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Topic: Question about the US constitution

Anonymous A started this discussion 4 hours ago #138,257

So if the judicial branch is a check on the executive branch, but the judicial branch has no means of enforcing a court order because it’s the executive branch that is assigned the task of carrying out the law, what if the executive branch decided to break the law, the judicial branch ruled the executive branch broke the law, and then the executive branch just refused to punish itself?

Andy joined in and replied with this 4 hours ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #1,462,492

John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 4 hours ago, 6 minutes later, 7 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,462,495

Or what if congress just set the number of people on the Supreme Court to be zero?

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 1 hour ago, 2 hours later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,462,506

@OP

> So if the judicial branch is a check on the executive branch, but the judicial branch has no means of enforcing a court order because it’s the executive branch that is assigned the task of carrying out the law, what if the executive branch decided to break the law, the judicial branch ruled the executive branch broke the law, and then the executive branch just refused to punish itself?

Technically the court could send US Marshalls to enforce. So, an armed stand off between or among federal law enforcement?
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