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Offline Vltava

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President and SCOTUS
« on: January 08, 2010, 03:24:09 am »
(This is for a polisci/civic discourse program)

When has the President blatantly disregarded a SCOTUS decision/order?

The two major cliched examples that come to mind are Pres Jackson and Worcester v Georgia and Pres Eisenhower and Brown v Board, but are there any sexier contemporary examples?

* to be clear, Eisenhower's action is an example of the opposite of Jackson's
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Re: President and SCOTUS
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2010, 01:07:44 pm »
Eisenhower had to use the army to uphold Brown vs. Board.
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Re: President and SCOTUS
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2010, 05:48:17 pm »
Eisenhower had to use the army to uphold Brown vs. Board.

Correct, but not until 1957--three years after Brown v Board. "(W)ith all deliberate speed" was disregarded by state supreme courts until iirc a SCOTUS recommendation (not Griffen v Board I think).
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Re: President and SCOTUS
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2010, 06:42:24 pm »
Eisenhower had to use the army to uphold Brown vs. Board.

Correct, but not until 1957--three years after Brown v Board. "(W)ith all deliberate speed" was disregarded by state supreme courts until iirc a SCOTUS recommendation (not Griffen v Board I think).
Except that it took him one day to send 1,200 paratroopers to Arkansas when the governor refused Proclamation No.3204 ordering him to comply with brown vs. board.  To imply that Eisenhower refused the supreme court's order is entirely false.
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