Let me save everyone some work:

The closest #SCOTUS case to what Trump might be contemplating is In re Debs (1895), in which the Court upheld an injunction sought by the Executive Branch against the Pullman strike insofar as it was messing with commerce:

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep158/usrep158564/usrep158564.pdf
The problem with Debs as a precedent here is that, as Justice Brewer explained for the Court, the interference justifying the injunction wasn’t with “interstate commerce” in the abstract, but with specific Acts of Congress that were to be enforced by ... the Executive Branch:
There’s no basis for reading into that case a general power on the part of the President to sue local government officials for orders that interfere with commerce. The whole point of Debs is that it’s another mechanism, short of using the military, to enforce federal *statutes*.
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