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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing PP wrote is evidence that Alito suggested it's
OK to disobey a judge's order.

Facts matter.

Alito, a Supreme Court judge that has authority to overrule district court, said that the district court ordered the payment without legal basis, and voted to overrule that order.

That is the opposite of "suggesting it's OK to ignore a court order".

Did he say "I don't even know why the district court are botherred to publish it's ruling, because Trump didn't ask for it and has no obligation to obey it; court opinions are merely advisory?" No, he did not say that.

Alito said that "district court ordered it" is not sufficient basis for SCOTUS, a higher court, to uphold the order; the order also may be correct.

Feel free to disagree with opinion. It's not cool to misrepresent what he said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/us/politics/usaid-foreign-aid-freeze-release-deadline.html[/quote]

[b]“What if the Robinson decision were plainly wrong?” Alito asked. “Would you still have a good reason to follow it?”[/b]

Louisiana’s solicitor general, Benjamin Aguiñaga, agreed that a wildly bad decision might be the rare kind of situation in which a state could not rely on a court order to justify its new map. But Alito pressed on, positing even weaker cases where a court might be ignored:

[b]“What if it weren’t wildly wrong?” the justice asked. “You look at it and it’s wrong. They misapplied something.”[/b]

Deciding whether an order is "plainly wrong" or "misapplied something" is not what the subjects of orders get to do.

Consider, for example, a non-custodial parent who believes that the court was wrong in ordering full custody to the other parent. Certainly, it is possible that for whatever reason, custody was granted to somebody who, say, sexually abused their child and the other parent is unable to convince law enforcement or the courts that that happened. Or maybe the person not awarded custody is really the person who is dangerous for their child to be around. If that person travels across state lines to carry out a parental abduction and is caught, they are most certainly going to jail. By raising the question, Alito is challenging the assumption that court orders are to be followed, when he should, in fact, be sticking to the presumption they are to be followed. [/quote]

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