The Associated Press was still barred from a Trump press conference, despite a court order  Just to be clear: if  Trump does not obey the courts, the courts do have some options.  But when those options are exhausted, then the rule of law is officially over, and the United States is officially a dictatorship.  Courts are the last bulwark for civil society.  Harvard, after all, can't get its federal monies back by sending its militia to DC to seize it.