Vice President JD Vance wrote Sunday on X, "Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power."

Summary

Legal experts warn of a looming constitutional crisis after JD Vance suggested judges lack authority over Trump’s “legitimate power.”

His remarks follow a federal judge’s ruling blocking Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing Treasury Department data.

Musk also called for the judge’s impeachment, fueling concerns the administration may ignore court orders.

Scholars argue this undermines judicial authority and could trigger a systemic breakdown, but with Republicans controlling Congress, impeachment as a remedy appears unlikely.

  • @WarlordSdocy
    22•2 days ago

    The real interesting question to me is how do you even really prevent something like this from happening? If every elected official decides the law doesn’t matter who is left to enforce it on them? I feel like the only real options are the military stepping in when bad things are happening but that’s a very slippery slope to normalize that or having powerful unions that can actually lead general strikes when these kinds of things happen. But atleast in the US unions have been beaten down so much that that isn’t really an option so what is left really?

    • @SanctusEnglish
      12•1 day ago

      We are. There is an amendment for this. Its a funny one known as the second. But good luck with that, especially if the military is going along with it.

        • @SanctusEnglish
          5•1 day ago

          Both are. Dudes just came from a monarchy.

    • burgersc12English
      6•1 day ago

      I think we have a couple of bad options

      1. live with it
      2. end civilization as we know it

      It’s like a rock and a hard place…