[blakep]

He can send in federal marshals in order to recover the facility, and put the tube back in.

[RonDog]

There is, of course, considerable historical precedent for such actions.

See, for example, from faculty.smu.edu/dsimon/Change-Civ%20Rts.html:

October 1957
Central High School
Little Rock, Arkansas
(David Halberstam, The Fifties, Chapter 44)

     

  

To comply with the Brown v. Board decision, plans were made to integrate Central High School in September of 1957.  When nine black high school students arrived to attend Central High, they were met by an angry crowd. Despite his pledges of cooperation, the governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, in fact, ordered the Arkansas National Guard to keep the black students, known as the "Little Rock Nine," out of the school. 

Faced with this defiance of a federal court order, President Dwight Eisenhower responded by sending troops from the 101st Airborne to Little Rock with orders to protect the nine students.

Eisenhower also federalized the Arkansas National Guard.  This marked the first time since Reconstruction that federal troops were sent to the South.  This incident was the first of several in which the governor of a state refused to ensure a peaceful process of integration and thereby forced the President of the United States to act...

[McGavin999]

He can only do what is legal for him to do and within his constitutional powers. His first and most important duty is to uphold the Constitution of the United States.

No matter how important the life is Terri is, we can not destroy the Constitution. Think of all those young men and women who are putting their lives on the line every single day to uphold that very same Constitution.

[bigeasy_70118]

There is no basis in the Constitution for President's authority to do this.