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.
That is both so wrong and so dangerous that it's almost beyone belief that someone who went to law school for more than two weeks would utter it. CouchBoy is advocating for a dictatorship, where a president can do anything he wants and it's OK. If he truly believes that, his law school diploma should be nullified. If Yale is teaching that to its students, then the school needs to be decertified. And the Faux Hillbilly should be impeached and removed from office for swearing a false oath.
The utter hypocrisy of this view is shown by Vance's opposition to President Biden's canceling student loan debt. So what the bearded fascist is claiming is that it's OK when his master wants to do something, but not when a Democrat does it. That's not a legal principle, that's just a naked power grab.
Meanwhile:
President Donald Trump said he will announce on Monday that the United States will impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports, including from Canada and Mexico, as well as other import duties later in the week.
“Any steel coming into the United States is going to have a 25% tariff,” he told reporters Sunday on Air Force One as he flew from Florida to New Orleans to attend the Super Bowl. When asked about aluminum, he responded, “aluminum, too” will be subject to the trade penalties.
Imported steel and aluminum is in almost everything metallic from buildings to drink cans. The prices of those are going up, thanks to Deluded Donnie, who had repeatedly vowed to lower prices on Day One. That's a promise he has made no move whatsoever to keep, because he doesn't give a fuck about the people who voted for him because they thought he'd do a beter job on the economy.