Vance and Musk question the authority of the courts as Trump's agenda faces legal pushback

[Dulcinea]

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-judiciary-musk-separation-of-powers-balance-checks-069c169ea1ddf6eea76f502d544c4c16

[Dem4life1234]

1. Who the hell do they think they are?

I don't like that smug person.

How is he not a DEI candidate? He got chosen because he is young and has no soul.

He can't even defend his wife against some bum ass incel like the starts with a C ends with a k word he is, and he wants to puff out his chest? Who does he think he is?

[AltairIV]

2. Both of them are dumb asses at best...

I can completely understand how musk has no clue how the US government works. After all he is an illegal immigrant from a formally racist, fascist state. vance being in government just proves that we need to enforce an IQ test, an a 10 grade civics test before being allowed to assume office.

[Dem4life1234]

4. I wish they go and create their own little dictatorship

Take all the MAGAts with them and see how productive the country would be.

They don't understand the concept of law and order.

These people aren't conservative, they are something else, point blank fascist idiots.

I can deal with dumb, but both dumb and evil? That's lethal.

[mwmisses4289]

3. JD doesn't seem to realize the pushback

is coming from citizens using one of the few tools we have to pushback against this criminal group.

They make me think of children in a home with childcentered/gentle parenting: when they are finally told "No!" they throw a tantrum hoping they will get their way.

[Dem4life1234]

5. But he didn't puff up like that to the idiot who insulted his wife's ethnicity!