What happens if the govt (ie: Trump) ignores court orders?

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Lifer
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lets say Trump ignores court orders to stop doing something (ie: the banning of immigrants) and continues to do it.

What happens next?
 
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I doubt if he's going to do what the Obama administration did when it faced the same type court orders in his immigration plan which was to violate those court orders. He'll probably find another Judge to overturn it.

http://dailysignal.com/2015/05/12/o...r-to-halt-implementation-of-immigration-plan/

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This was not the first such admission by the government. It had previously filed an “Advisory” on March 3 informing Judge Hanen that between Nov. 20, 2014, when the president announced his immigration plan, and Feb. 16 when the injunction was issued, the Department of Homeland Security had begun implementing part of the president’s plan by issuing three-year deferrals to over 100,000 illegal aliens.

In other words, despite having told Judge Hanen both in court and in written pleadings that no part of the president’s plan was being implemented until late February at the earliest, government officials were doing exactly the opposite. ................"

On April 7, Judge Hanen issued an order with a scathing analysis of the Justice Department’s misbehavior