What happens when someone refuses to comply with a SCotUS decision?

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What happens when someone refuses to comply with a SCotUS decision?

Outside The Beltway - Mobile Edition: California Defies Supreme Court on Prison Releases. http://goo.gl/mag/o19vhmY
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Brenda Curtis said…
what Brown is doing is setting it up for every prisoner to have a valid lawsuit and sue his state blind. And win.
April 16, 2013 at 12:14 PM
Jeff Chapman said…
brilliant
send in the troops and arrest jerry brown
April 16, 2013 at 12:27 PM
Bryce Miller said…
Brown vs Board was also defied for years. No governors were arrested. After two more SCOTUS decisions and the involvement of armed forces, law was enforced.
April 17, 2013 at 12:04 PM
Jason ON said…
That's exactly it, BRYCE MILLER , someone has to be qilling to enforce the decision. The SCotUS doesn't have the ability and must rely on the executive. Will the executive be brave enough to enforce the mandate?

If the Executive doesn't, does tjat essentially castrate the Judicial branch? Does that set a terrible precedent?
April 17, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Bryce Miller said…
The precedent is that it can take years to successfully enforce over an unwilling state, but that in the end Fed trumps State. They will come into compliance. It's not optional, but apparently immediate compliance is indeed optional. The wheels of justice turn slowly :p

Seems the problem will go away when they finally legalize marijuana. Simple. California will save a billion a year and that would fund enough prison space even if they didn't also reduce their headcount in prison, which they will. 

Our federal House Of Representatives could easily fix that illegal weed part of the problem, if we fired them all and hired sane public servants.
April 17, 2013 at 1:20 PM
Jason ON said…
I thought of him specifically, but we are extremely divided now, with more
politicians unwilling to take an unpopular position and even more
politicians outright willing to ignore or circumvent laws and the
Constitution.
April 17, 2013 at 1:48 PM
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