Earlier this week, US Attorney General William Barr insisted that "the president is right on the legal grounds" and "the Supreme Court decision was wrong." The previous legal team had aggressively litigated the case, so the suggestion that President Trump is planning legal moves even they could not stomach is deeply troubling. There is perhaps no president in US history who has attacked the courts and judges as much as President Trump has. President Abraham Lincoln detested the Supreme Court's ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford—widely regarded as the worst Supreme Court opinion in history—but he recognized that the President does not get to pick and choose which court orders to follow. Whether on the census or any other issue, Trump may not decide which court orders he will follow and which ones he will defy.

Source: CNN July 10, 2019 23:15 UTC