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What does it mean?
A challenge to a judicial decision, refusing to comply with enforcement.
In plain terms
The judge made a ruling, but I won't help enforce it.
What can you take from it?
Decisions mean little without enforcement power.

Where it applies

  • constitutional crisis
  • interbranch conflict
  • legal disputes

Putting it to work

  • understand enforcement limits
  • engage in legal debate
  • assert executive power

Questions to consider

  • Who enforces the law?
  • Can a judge rule without enforcement?

Another view

Refusing to enforce law undermines the rule of law.

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