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I think you're living in a fantasy world touched by paranoia. The reality is that a President hasn't blown off a Supreme Court ruling since Andy Jackson, and there are innumerable cases whether the Supreme Court has struck down a law, regulation, tax or fee, etc. and that ruling has been followed. That is reality.

You are confusing the Supreme Court not missing a ruling to your liking with the orders of the Supreme Court being ignored. If the Court strikes down something like a fee that Trump pulled out ofbhis sohincter, without appropriate legislation, the tax/fee won't be collected.

I'm a conservative lawyer who has argued a lot of conservative positions in court, including the Supreme Court, and your view that decisions are habitually ignored, or that Trump could simply ignore them, doesn't work.

Just try thinking about this on a very practical, nuts and bolts level. Let's say he makes up this 40% tax on remittances to Mexico. How is that actually collected? And what happens when (not if) it gets struck down by courts? Who will physically collect that money from those.millions of Mexican illegals?

Whether or not you personally respect the Court or any of its decisions isn't relevant. The reality is that the people who would have to execute that collection will respect those orders, and the money will not be collected.

Continue living in denial if you want. I'm just telling you the way things actually work in the real world, not in your fantasy Trumpist revolutionary world.