How are supreme court rulings enforced?
Assuming you mean the U.S. Supreme Court, it depends on the type/class of the ruling, but I don’t think you’re terribly concerned with the matter of writs, stays, and the like, and are essentially asking about how Supreme Court *Decisions* are enforced – e.g., the Court’s decision in Roe-v-Wade. The answer is that inferior courts – both Federal and State – follow suit, and will simply refuse to uphold a state or Federal statute that the Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional, and will not admit into evidence that which the Supreme Court has declared inadmissable. That being the case, cops, lawyers, and State & Federal bureaucrats won’t pursue a court action that they and everyone else in Law and Government already know they can’t win. If a judge did thumb his nose at the Supreme Court’s decision, his ruling could be appealed straight up the chain all the way to the Supreme Court which, of course, would uphold its decision. So any judge who would try to defy it would just be wasting e
