It’s useful to remember that this sort of abuse of Presidential power has happened twice before in our history, in the administrations of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt. In both cases, their abuses were tolerated in part because we were involved in a war. When the war ended, much of the excesses were rolled back.
In Roosevelt’s case, the Supreme Court intervened to check Presidential power, but Roosevelt countered by threatening to pack the Court and they were intimidated from taking further action. World War II had the effect of restoring some balance, but the power and reach of the Federal Government have been the lasting legacy of Roosevelt’s overreach.
We are facing the same sort of overreach and are in the process of expanding the Federal Government’s power and reach yet again. The closely divided Congress has proven an ineffective counter and the Courts have largely stayed on the sidelines except where liberals on the bench have chosen to intervene on Obama’s side. If we don’t act soon, the Judiciary will become even more liberal and that avenue will be closed. That day is very near.
Your example just make the point that SCOTUS is a political branch, not a judicial branch.
FDR was finally brought to heel by the conservative southern Democrats whose support he needed during WWII. Thomas Fleming describes some of this in his ‘The New Dealer’s War’.