Mini-Post: These Guy Are Lawyers?

These guys are lawyers and even me with no legal back ground remembers the 3 equal branches of government and checks and balance. But it seems like that the Republicans have a mental block when it come to it.

Johnson: Courts should ‘allow the executive and the legislative branches to work’

The Hill

by Sarah Fortinsky

February 10, 2025

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said on Monday he thinks the courts should let the Trump administration and Congress do their work as they continue their efforts to reshape the federal government.

Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, Johnson expressed support for the work that President Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk are doing through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) commission, but he said “we’ll see” how the litigation proceeds through the courts.

“It has taken this level of audit from effectively an outside auditor — that’s what DOGE and Elon and the group really is — to be able to get into the systems and open the literal files and expose this stuff. And so, we are applauding that. This is what we have been wanting and trying to do for a long time. So, this is a good development,” Johnson said about the work DOGE is doing.

“I wish the courts would allow the executive and the legislative branches to work, but we’ll see how all that develops,” he continued.

One judge has already lambasted not following the court order!

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Update: 8:30AM

The Independent writes about Vance,

Experts and officials expressed alarm on Sunday after Vice President JD Vance suggested federal courts “aren’t allowed” to limit the White House’s “legitimate power.”

The controversy began on Sunday morning, when Vance tweeted his views on executive power.

“If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal,” he wrote on X. “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.

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Vance has long argued the White House can defy orders it views as unconstitutional.

“And when the courts — because you will get taken to court — and when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say: ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it,’” he told a podcast in 2021.

Observers on the left said Vance’s view went against the Constitution and Supreme Court precedent from the earliest days of the U.S. government.

I have predicted that we are going to face a Constitutional showdown,