{"id":16461,"date":"2025-02-13T12:57:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T12:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16461"},"modified":"2025-02-13T12:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T12:57:29","slug":"theres-no-need-to-guess-jd-vance-is-ready-to-ignore-the-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16461","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s No Need to Guess. JD Vance Is Ready to Ignore the Courts."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Vance\u2019s most comprehensive statement of this radical position came in an interview I conducted with him in January 2023 for a profile in POLITICO Magazine<\/a>. During the interview, I referred to comments that he had made on a conservative podcast<\/a> in 2021 suggesting that Trump, if reelected, should \u201cfire every single midlevel bureaucrat, [and] every civil servant in the administrative state \u2026 and when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say: \u2018The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 I asked Vance if this was still his view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYup,\u201d he responded.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Vance\u2019s rhetorical quibbling aside, his suggestion is radical. The course of action he is recommending \u2014 the president openly defying a Supreme Court order and then challenging the courts to enforce it \u2014 would amount to a full-fledged constitutional crisis of a different sort, one that would entirely upend the existing rules governing the separation of powers between the courts and the executive branch.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/02\/11\/jd-vance-trump-executive-power-supreme-court-00203537<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Vance\u2019s most comprehensive statement of this radical position came in an interview I conducted with him in January 2023 for a profile in POLITICO Magazine. During the interview, I referred to comments that he had made on a conservative podcast in 2021 suggesting that Trump, if reelected, should \u201cfire every single midlevel bureaucrat, [and] every civil servant in the administrative state \u2026 and when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say: \u2018The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

I asked Vance if this was still his view.<\/p>\n

\u201cYup,\u201d he responded.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Vance\u2019s rhetorical quibbling aside, his suggestion is radical. The course of action he is recommending \u2014 the president openly defying a Supreme Court order and then challenging the courts to enforce it \u2014 would amount to a full-fledged constitutional crisis of a different sort, one that would entirely upend the existing rules governing the separation of powers between the courts and the executive branch.”<\/p>\n

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