I also believe that the public's view of the deference to which Supreme Court orders are entitled is different now than it was in 1832.
Correct. I made that point because ultimately, the decision as to whether or not the President would be impeached is up to Congress, which is a political branch strongly influenced by, and reflective of, public opinion. If 80% of the public believes that the Supreme Court should be the final word on Constitutional interpretation --
regardless of whether they are right or wrong - that makes the impeachment of the President much more likely than it would have been nearly 200 years ago, where the public's opinion of the Supreme Court may have been far different.
You are talking legal/constitutional theory, which is irrelevant to my point. I am talking about the political realities -- because that's what is going to determine impeachment.
You defer to an unelected court when you believe Executive must adher to all Supreme Court rulings. They most decidedly are not the supreme law of the land. The Constitution is.
Whether or not the Executive "should" have to adhere to all Supreme Court rulings is irrelevant to the point I have been making in this thread. I personally do
not believe that the President should be required to adhere to every Supreme Court ruling. But I'm not so self-absorbed that I believe my opinion to be in the majority. It isn't. My position is that the political realities/public opinion are such that the President would be impeached if he openly defied a Supreme Court ruling on, say, immigration policy. That might not be what you or I think
should happen, but I'm not arguing "should". We have had generation after generation go through school being taught that it is up to the Supreme Court to decide what the Constitution means.
Brown v. Board of Education,
Miranda v. Arizona,
Citizens United,
D.C. v. Heller...the list goes on and on. Our military, our police, etc., all went through those same schools that taught them the Supreme Court is the finally arbiter of the Constitution.
Whether or not you or I believe that's what people
should have been taught is irrelevant. It is what people believe
now, and how members of Congress, including a great many Republicans, would actually vote on impeachment.
I'm going to address the other point you made in a separate post.