The chief justice had spoken out against MAGA’s attacks on the judiciary.
JD Vance ripped into Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts for saying the courts are an equal branch of government whose job is to “check the excesses” of the executive branch.
Earlier this month, Roberts responded to calls from MAGA to impeach judges who ruled against Donald Trump’s policies by saying, “In our Constitution, the judiciary is a coequal branch of government, separate from the others, with the authority to interpret the Constitution as law, and strike down acts of Congress or acts of the president.”
“That innovation doesn’t work if the judiciary is not independent,” he continued during a fireside chat in Buffalo, New York. “Its job is to, obviously, decide cases, but in the course of that, check the excesses of Congress or of the executive, and that does require a degree of independence.”
I don’t respect his self identification of JD Vance. James Bowman is on his birth certificate, and that’s what he must be called.
how are you going to argue with the highest court in the land about their status in the government?
Jail them. Literally send aeound your thunfs to.haul their ass to jail,.no due process needed.
The Republican way of course!
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Stupidly
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With unimaginable levels of unfounded confidence
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Behind closed doors with many bulging manila envelopes and vague threats.
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I’d say don’t argue with the courts at all.
Declare their opposition to -your new laws- illegal, while being sure there is no force to stop you making the courts submissive to your new king’s laws.
Just about what they are doing now.
Doesn’t this clown supposedly have a law degree from Yale? And a poli-sci degree too? How the fuck do you have those two degrees from American universities without understanding a high school level concept like the branches of the US government? Were they just handing out degrees to him like candy on Halloween?
Because he doesn’t actually believe any of this, it’s all performative. It’s all about creating a certain narrative that they can then exploit to keep the grift going.
This guy gets it. This is intentional, not due to ignorance or stupidity, but malice. They seek to weaken the power of whoever is not aligned with them in the public eye, to gain more fascist power. If people end up believing this, the future when they can plainly ignore it is more plausible.
I’d go a step further and say despite what he learned in law school, they want to weaken the judicial branch and they’re using Trump’s performative ‘tell a lie till it’s truth’ playbook.
This, but also there is massive competition for getting Trumps favor among his minions. A public statement like this pleases Trump, and so Vance gets to be a bit closer to daddy. Trump loves this type of competition among his underlings, and so all of them attempt to outcompete each other in stupidity.
He paid for those degrees. Didn’t actually earn them just like every legacy or rich asshole
He understands it just fine, he is just hoping his followers don’t.
It’s my understanding that Americans study multiple subjects at university rather than just the one, so it stands to reason they’d get by with mediocrity in a couple of subjects and still complete their studies.
He’s got a law degree…he ABSOLUTELY knows he’s fucking wrong and doesn’t care.
That’s a bit of a misunderstanding, US Colleges have a bit of catch up period in the first year or 2 of study where you are both getting some exposure to your new topic but also ensuring your prior education is on par with everyone else. We call these “general education requirements” or “gen ed” and it’s because high school graduation isn’t well standardized across the states. Most students can test at the start of College or show their high school work and skip some of the basic writing and math classes to the next level. These “gen ed” classes ensure every student at the school has a basic level of reading, writing, and maths to base the rest of their work on. The amount of these other classes you have to take, is based on your major so for example people majoring in Teaching have more than other majoring in Engineering based on the logic a teacher needs a broader education in everything than an engineer will.
It does sometimes result in odd situations like my Uncle who couldn’t pass a general education language course in his non-native language (Spanish for him) and so was denied a Mathematics Education Degree and needed an extra semester to finish a different mathematics degree that had fewer gen ed requirements.
This all also plays into why US undergraduate degrees are usually 4-5 year programs instead of the shorter degrees tracks in Europe.
That all said, JD has a 4 year degree in Poly-sci and an additional 3 in Law School and he’s still a complete moron. Not even Yale could fix that.
No degree can teach even a smart person to think of the consequences of their plans for other people if they don’t want to.
Law degrees from Yale are as good as that toilet paper from Wharton these days. Though I hear you need to flush a few times
Trump won by a slim margin. It was not the mandate they pretend it was. Reagan was less ballsy and he won by a far larger margin.
No one cares what that shit dick has to say. He should survive his time pulling the couch cousin fibers from his pubes
such a little man
“Its job is to, obviously, decide cases, but in the course of that, check the excesses of Congress or of the executive, and that does require a degree of independence…”
He dropped this part “…while also living in excess from the various gifts received from friends of Congress or the Executive” .
Did you say thank you yet?
I’d like to be tested to see if I would lose all my convictions and just play this game and for what? Money? Power trip? Really that petty? Or desperation that they couldn’t make a living if they weren’t politicians.
