So many of these bureaucrats are terrified of him, in no small part because you can bank on the bailiff and at least half the sheriff's deputies in the building are sporting "Blue Lives" bumper stickers and posting Jan 6th selfies on instagram.
Trump gets to brazenly defy the courts because he's got the kind of popular support that other politicians have forgotten is even possible. He's a very modern incarnation of a mafioso boss, with all that that implies.