When a federal judge shot down a Trump administration policy of holding immigrants without bond last December, it seemed like a serious blow to the president’s mass deportation effort.

Instead, a top Justice Department official insisted the ruling wasn’t binding, and the administration continued denying detainees around the country a chance for release.

By February, the district court judge, Sunshine Sykes, was fed up. Sykes, a nominee of President Joe Biden, accused Trump officials in a ruling that month of seeking “to erode any semblance of separation of powers,” adding that they could “only do so in a world where the Constitution does not exist.”

Hardly isolated, the case illustrates a broader pattern of defiance of lower court decisions in Donald Trump’s second term.

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    Then fucking enforce it with the State’s monopoly on violence that you always parade about. The Courts are pussies that need to send in armed police/soldiers/whatever the official title is, to forcibly abduct or compel a tyrannical dictator to comply.

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        So actually not all. The Judicial branch has US Marshalls, and Congress has Sergeant at Arms (which is very wimpy and never used).