Wednesday, August 14, 2024

JD Vance’s ‘Constitutional Crisis’ in the Making - POLITICO

"What Trump is trying to do is create a sort of authoritarian type of government where he can manipulate the civil service system to do what he wants," said Kenneth Warren, a professor at St. Louis University whose areas of expertise include administrative law and the administrative state. "That's very, very dangerous." … 

Vance's proposal for Trump to simply defy the Supreme Court if it threw out Schedule F is also deeply concerning. It runs contrary to our collective, basic and firmly embedded civic understanding that the Supreme Court has the last word on what the law is in this country, for better or worse. Americans may not like it — they frequently and at times vocally do not — but it is a broadly accepted fact of American governance, and Vance's evident willingness to reject it is worrisome…

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