When Courts Rule but Power Doesn't Listen (🇺🇸 US-UK🇬🇧 Edition)

The American courts still rule. Opinions are issued. Orders are entered. Dissents are filed.But power does not reside in parchment. It resides in whether rulings actually bind those who would prefer not to be bound.This episode examines a quieter form of democratic erosion: not the smashing of courts, but the normalization of selective compliance. When enforcement arrives late, when leaders pre-frame adverse rulings as partisan attacks, and when courts intervene only after harm has begun, judicial authority becomes ornamental rather than constraining.The danger is not judicial error. Courts err by design.The danger is a political culture in which even correct rulings no longer compel behavior.When courts rule but power does not listen, the republic keeps its rituals—and loses its teeth.~Dunneagin Get full access to ~ Civics Unhinged: Dispatches From Trumpistan ~ at dunneagin.substack.com/subscribe