Summary
Legal experts warn of a looming constitutional crisis after JD Vance suggested judges lack authority over Trump’s “legitimate power.”
His remarks follow a federal judge’s ruling blocking Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing Treasury Department data.
Musk also called for the judge’s impeachment, fueling concerns the administration may ignore court orders.
Scholars argue this undermines judicial authority and could trigger a systemic breakdown, but with Republicans controlling Congress, impeachment as a remedy appears unlikely.
Constitutional crisis or oligarchs’ open-mic night? Legal ghouls shift to hand-wringing now that courts they weaponized for decades bend for Trump. Where was this faux outrage when Obama droned weddings or Bush gutted habeas corpus? The bench has always been a billionaires’ batting cage – Musk just swapped his rocket for a gavel.
This ‘crisis’ is the propaganda cycle hitting puberty. Media hacks who normalized Patriot Act II suddenly care about checks and balances? Please. SCOTUS isn’t corrupted – it’s functioning exactly as designed: a veto board for capital.
Vance’s rulings aren’t an aberration – they’re the theater of the absurd required to maintain empire cosplaying as democracy.