Who's gonna stop them? Or, more specifically, by what mechanism will they be stopped? The courts did their bit for the moment, but someone still has to enforce it. Which is usually the Executive's job, yes?

It would be a major step for the federal government to simply refuse to abide by a court order. It is very common for parties to try to frustrate the intention of an order by dragging their feet, or playing around with ambiguities in the language, or similar steps. But when push comes to shove, once things have reached the point where you get a clear, unambiguous requirement to comply, even the current Administration has done so.

If the Administration refused to comply with a direct judicial order, the court could issue an affirmative injunction forcing payment of the funds directly and start imposing civil and criminal sanctions against the agencies and the individuals in the government that were violating the order. The criminal contempt sanctions are subject to the pardon power, but the civil ones are not.

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