JD Vance's Constitutional Bullshit: Executive Power, Our Fucking Idiot VP, and How a HillyBilly is Out of His Depth
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.
The Basics Vance Slept Through in Law School
The foundation of judicial review, established in Marbury v. Madison (1803), gives federal courts the power to review actions by both the executive and legislative branches. Chief Justice John Marshall'sβ¦
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