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JD Vance's Constitutional Bullshit: Executive Power, Our Fucking Idiot VP, and How a HillyBilly is Out of His Depth
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JD Vance's Constitutional Bullshit: Executive Power, Our Fucking Idiot VP, and How a HillyBilly is Out of His Depth

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In a statement that would make any first-year law student cringe, Senator JD Vance recently declared: "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."

This monumentally ignorant assertion reveals not just a fundamental misunderstanding of constitutional law, but a dangerous attempt to rewrite centuries of established judicial precedent. Let's tear this bullshit apart piece by piece.

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