Sam Stein & Ryan Goodman: JD Vance Defends DOGE Over Judges & The Rule of Law

"Sam Stein is joined by Ryan Goodman, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Just Security, to discuss JD Vance’s assertion that executive power could overrule a judge’s decision." 

Source:The Bulwark with Ryan Goodman & Sam Stein.

From The Bulwark

Apparently Joe Scarborough trying to sound relevant again: 

"A federal judge on Friday paused a midnight deadline for the U.S. Agency for International Development to be stripped down to a few hundred workers from a workforce of more than 5,000. Meanwhile, Vice President J.D. Vance posted Sunday on social media saying federal judges aren't allowed to control a president. The Morning Joe panel discusses." 

Source:MSNBC with a look at President Donald J. Trump (MAGA, Florida) 47th President of the United States & 1st wannabe dictator.

From MSNBC

From Vice President JD Vance: 

"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."

From Vice President JD Vance

I guess 1 could interpret what the Vice President is saying here as: "The Federal courts don't have the constitutional authority to interpret what the President (meaning Donald J. Trump) can do or not do. Only President Trump can do that." 

Now imagine if Joe Biden was still the President, or Kamala Harris won in November and was the President right now, and JD Vance was still Senator JD Vance, instead of Vice President Vance and a Federal court ruled against the Democratic President... I'm willing to bet anything that Senator Vance's interpretation of what the court ruled against the President, would be a helluva lot different. 

Donald Trump, JD Vance, and their army of MAGA allies, (which at times looks and sounds like an escaped mental patients convention getting together for a reunion) talk all the time about they don't want to be dictators, they're not authoritarians. But every time someone, or something holds them accountable, they always claim that the person or agency, or organization, doesn't have the authority to do what they legally and constitutionally just did. 

As Ryan Goodman told Sam Stein: if the Vice President doesn't like the court's ruling, The White House can always appeal it. But what they do instead, is just question whether the court even has the authority to even interpret what the President did. Even though that's 1 of the main functions of our court system which is to interpret the laws of Congress and the executive actions of the President.

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