In school, how do you best deal with a disobedient, recalcitrant child? Tell just him that he was wrong and fix the problem for him ... or make him stay after school writing “I won’t disregard SCOTUS rulings” three hundred times on the chalkboard?
IMHO what SCOTUS did here was a lot more humiliating to the 7th Circuit than if they’d just overturned the ruling.
I think what you’re thinking of with schoolchildren and liberals/progressives are two different things. In the one case, children cannot be taught. In the other, you can rub their face in it, destroy them with all reason, logic and force you want and they will still stand back and defiantly and obliviously keep on doing what they’re doing.
In short, it’s water off a duck’s back to them. You don’t ‘teach’ them; you slap them upside the head until it actually hurts to the point they cannot react so.