Top Trump administration officials are openly questioning the judiciary’s authority to serve as a check on executive power as the new president’s sweeping agenda faces growing pushback from the courts.

Over the past 24 hours, officials ranging from billionaire Elon Musk to Vice President JD Vance have not only criticized a federal judge’s decision early Saturday that blocks Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department records, but have also attacked the legitimacy of judicial oversight, a fundamental pillar of American democracy, which is based on the separation of powers.

“If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal. Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” Vance wrote on X on Sunday morning.

  • @Cocodapuf
    8•2 days ago

    Oh… I see the misunderstanding. You see, in this governmental system, we have three branches, one is the legislative (this is congress, they make the laws), another is the executive branch, (that’s what your party is making a mockery of right now), and the third is the judicial branch (that’s the courts, they make sure everything is actually legal). So you see, yes, they are supposed to be there, it’s part of the design…